Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report

The rupture of an intra-abdominal testicular neoplasm is a rare cause of acute abdomen and massive intra-abdominal haemorrhage. We report the case of a 70-year-old male presenting a massive intra-abdominal bleeding caused by a Leydig cell tumour in an undescended testis. The clinical details and pat...

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Autores principales: Gonzalez, Michel, Merlani, Paolo, Egger, Jean-François, Pugin, François, Morel, Philippe
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2007
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Published: August 2007
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21487472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000107471
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author Gonzalez, Michel
Merlani, Paolo
Egger, Jean-François
Pugin, François
Morel, Philippe
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Morel, Philippe
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description The rupture of an intra-abdominal testicular neoplasm is a rare cause of acute abdomen and massive intra-abdominal haemorrhage. We report the case of a 70-year-old male presenting a massive intra-abdominal bleeding caused by a Leydig cell tumour in an undescended testis. The clinical details and pathology of this rare testicular tumour are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30737882011-04-12 Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report Gonzalez, Michel Merlani, Paolo Egger, Jean-François Pugin, François Morel, Philippe Case Rep Gastroenterol Published: August 2007 The rupture of an intra-abdominal testicular neoplasm is a rare cause of acute abdomen and massive intra-abdominal haemorrhage. We report the case of a 70-year-old male presenting a massive intra-abdominal bleeding caused by a Leydig cell tumour in an undescended testis. The clinical details and pathology of this rare testicular tumour are discussed. S. Karger AG 2007-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3073788/ /pubmed/21487472 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000107471 Text en Copyright © 2007 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: August 2007
Gonzalez, Michel
Merlani, Paolo
Egger, Jean-François
Pugin, François
Morel, Philippe
Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report
title Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report
title_full Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report
title_fullStr Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report
title_short Hemorrhagic Shock Caused by Rupture of an Intra-Abdominal Leydig Cell Tumour: Case Report
title_sort hemorrhagic shock caused by rupture of an intra-abdominal leydig cell tumour: case report
topic Published: August 2007
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21487472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000107471
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