Gastric Yolk Sac Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Gastric yolk sac tumors are extremely rare and their prognosis is poor; most patients have widespread metastases at the time of diagnosis. The treatment of gastric yolk sac tumors consists of aggressive chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy and surgery. Here, we first report a case of gastric yolk...

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Autores principales: Kim, Yeon Soo, Kim, Seok Hyun, Seong, Jae Koo, Lee, Byung Seok, Jeong, Hyun Yong, Song, Kyu Sang
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Publicado: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19543494
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2009.24.2.143
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author Kim, Yeon Soo
Kim, Seok Hyun
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Jeong, Hyun Yong
Song, Kyu Sang
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description Gastric yolk sac tumors are extremely rare and their prognosis is poor; most patients have widespread metastases at the time of diagnosis. The treatment of gastric yolk sac tumors consists of aggressive chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy and surgery. Here, we first report a case of gastric yolk sac tumor presenting as an early gastric cancer that was cured after a gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy.
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spelling pubmed-26986242009-06-18 Gastric Yolk Sac Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Kim, Yeon Soo Kim, Seok Hyun Seong, Jae Koo Lee, Byung Seok Jeong, Hyun Yong Song, Kyu Sang Korean J Intern Med Case Report Gastric yolk sac tumors are extremely rare and their prognosis is poor; most patients have widespread metastases at the time of diagnosis. The treatment of gastric yolk sac tumors consists of aggressive chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy and surgery. Here, we first report a case of gastric yolk sac tumor presenting as an early gastric cancer that was cured after a gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy. The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2009-06 2009-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2698624/ /pubmed/19543494 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2009.24.2.143 Text en Copyright © 2009 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2698624/
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