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Regressed Non-metastatic Germ Cell Tumour: A Case Report and Literature Review

Testicular germ cell tumour regression is a rare phenomenon, where the primary testicular tumour spontaneously regresses, typically with metastatic disease at presentation. We present a case of a regressed germ cell tumour (GCT) in a 44-year-old post-pubertal male. Initially treated for suspected in...

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Autores principales: Abdalla, Ahmed, Abdalla, Omar, Shendy, Mostafa, Lyttle, Margaret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10626218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37936993
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47851
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description Testicular germ cell tumour regression is a rare phenomenon, where the primary testicular tumour spontaneously regresses, typically with metastatic disease at presentation. We present a case of a regressed germ cell tumour (GCT) in a 44-year-old post-pubertal male. Initially treated for suspected infection, the patient's testicular swelling prompted further investigation, leading to a radical orchidectomy that revealed the unusual histomorphologic findings of an entirely necrotic, non-seminomatous GCT consistent with a pure embryonal carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-106262182023-11-07 Regressed Non-metastatic Germ Cell Tumour: A Case Report and Literature Review Abdalla, Ahmed Abdalla, Omar Shendy, Mostafa Lyttle, Margaret Cureus Pathology Testicular germ cell tumour regression is a rare phenomenon, where the primary testicular tumour spontaneously regresses, typically with metastatic disease at presentation. We present a case of a regressed germ cell tumour (GCT) in a 44-year-old post-pubertal male. Initially treated for suspected infection, the patient's testicular swelling prompted further investigation, leading to a radical orchidectomy that revealed the unusual histomorphologic findings of an entirely necrotic, non-seminomatous GCT consistent with a pure embryonal carcinoma. Cureus 2023-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10626218/ /pubmed/37936993 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47851 Text en Copyright © 2023, Abdalla et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Regressed Non-metastatic Germ Cell Tumour: A Case Report and Literature Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10626218/
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