Involvement of the gonads by malignant lymphoma may be: 1) primary extra nodal disease 2) the initial manifestation of clinically occult nodal disease or a late complication of disseminated nodal lymphoma. Lymphomas initially present in the gonads are generally non–Hodgkin‘s lymphomas. We present a clinic–pathologic analysis of 7 patients with malignant lymphoma in testis.

The study was conducted in the Department of Pathology Sher–i–Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences. 83 cases of testicular malignancy were reviewed retrospectively. Seven of these cases were found to be primary testicular lymphomas. Median age was 60 (19–75). Microscopically all tumours were non hodgkins lymphoma.

Diffuse Large B–cell Lymphoma is the most common primary testicular lymphoma (69–75%).The age at presentation is beyond the sixth decade of life.

Primary testicular lymphoma is a rare disease and needs high index of suspicion for early diagnosis.