Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation

We report a case of a patient who presented with anterior mediastinal mass, seizure disorder, and mental retardation. Computerized tomography–guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the mass showed nonseminomatous germ cell tumor. Chromosomal analysis showed XXY karyotype. A diagnosis of Klinefelter...

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Autores principales: Karkhanis, Vinaya, Joshi, J. M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2876702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20531999
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.56351
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Joshi, J. M.
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description We report a case of a patient who presented with anterior mediastinal mass, seizure disorder, and mental retardation. Computerized tomography–guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the mass showed nonseminomatous germ cell tumor. Chromosomal analysis showed XXY karyotype. A diagnosis of Klinefelter syndrome and mediastinal germ cell tumor was made.
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spelling pubmed-28767022010-06-08 Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation Karkhanis, Vinaya Joshi, J. M. Lung India Case Report We report a case of a patient who presented with anterior mediastinal mass, seizure disorder, and mental retardation. Computerized tomography–guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the mass showed nonseminomatous germ cell tumor. Chromosomal analysis showed XXY karyotype. A diagnosis of Klinefelter syndrome and mediastinal germ cell tumor was made. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2876702/ /pubmed/20531999 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.56351 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation
title Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation
title_full Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation
title_fullStr Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation
title_full_unstemmed Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation
title_short Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation
title_sort nonseminomatous germ cell tumor with seizure disorder and mental retardation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2876702/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20531999
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.56351
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