Primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum

A 54-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further examination following a chest radiographic screening test. He was asymptomatic but had an elevated serum concentration of alpha-fetoprotein. Chest computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging showed a posterior mediastinal mass in...

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Autores principales: Wada, Yousuke, Yokoyama, Toshiki, Yamamoto, Hiroshi, Hanaoka, Masayuki, Kawakami, Satoshi, Koizumi, Tomonobu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.44
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author Wada, Yousuke
Yokoyama, Toshiki
Yamamoto, Hiroshi
Hanaoka, Masayuki
Kawakami, Satoshi
Koizumi, Tomonobu
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Yokoyama, Toshiki
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Hanaoka, Masayuki
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description A 54-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further examination following a chest radiographic screening test. He was asymptomatic but had an elevated serum concentration of alpha-fetoprotein. Chest computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging showed a posterior mediastinal mass in the left thoracic paravertebral region. CT-guided percutaneous needle biopsy was performed, and the histological findings confirmed nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT). Gonadal examination and F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography findings indicated the posterior mediastinum as the origin of the disease. Reports of primary NSGCT in the posterior mediastinum are extremely rare.
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spelling pubmed-41847322014-12-03 Primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum Wada, Yousuke Yokoyama, Toshiki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Hanaoka, Masayuki Kawakami, Satoshi Koizumi, Tomonobu Respirol Case Rep Case Reports A 54-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further examination following a chest radiographic screening test. He was asymptomatic but had an elevated serum concentration of alpha-fetoprotein. Chest computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging showed a posterior mediastinal mass in the left thoracic paravertebral region. CT-guided percutaneous needle biopsy was performed, and the histological findings confirmed nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT). Gonadal examination and F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography findings indicated the posterior mediastinum as the origin of the disease. Reports of primary NSGCT in the posterior mediastinum are extremely rare. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-03 2014-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4184732/ /pubmed/25473562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.44 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Wada, Yousuke
Yokoyama, Toshiki
Yamamoto, Hiroshi
Hanaoka, Masayuki
Kawakami, Satoshi
Koizumi, Tomonobu
Primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum
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title_full Primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum
title_fullStr Primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum
title_full_unstemmed Primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum
title_short Primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum
title_sort primary nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in the posterior mediastinum
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.44
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