A fifty-four-year-old woman presented with right renal colic and three
months later a retroperitoneal tumor was diagnosed. After explorative
laparotomy with biopsy, which showed a germ cell tumor, the patient r
eceived external beam radiotherapy, but died of metastatic diffusion n
ine months later. We believe this is a rare occurrence of a germ cell
tumor in a postmenopausal woman.