An Unusual Painless Groin Mass in an Elderly Man

Question: An 89-year-old man had a painless mass in the right inguinal area for >6 months. Anorexia and unintentional weight loss occurred over the past month. His medical history was unremarkable. Physical examination revealed a fixed, hard, nonpulsatile, nontender, and irreducible lesion in the right groin (Figure A). The abdomen was soft, with no pain, and normal bowel sounds. The supine abdominal radiograph showed a normal bowel gas pattern. Sonogram of right inguinal region disclosed a 62 × 25 × 23-mm, well-circumscribed, heterogeneous, hypoechoic, and vascularized tumor (Figure B, white arrowheads).

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