Metachronous testicular seminoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Bilateral testicular neoplasia is rare, with an incidence ranging from 1 to 5 %. Long-term survival has improved in recent years due to advanced diagnostic approaches and new therapeutic methods that are highly effective against germ cell tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of...

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Autores principales: Di Gregorio, Marcelo, Nollevaux, Marie Cécile, Lorge, Francis, D’Hondt, Lionel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4867539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27184033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0902-9
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author Di Gregorio, Marcelo
Nollevaux, Marie Cécile
Lorge, Francis
D’Hondt, Lionel
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Nollevaux, Marie Cécile
Lorge, Francis
D’Hondt, Lionel
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description BACKGROUND: Bilateral testicular neoplasia is rare, with an incidence ranging from 1 to 5 %. Long-term survival has improved in recent years due to advanced diagnostic approaches and new therapeutic methods that are highly effective against germ cell tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a patient with a primary seminomatous testicular tumor, who developed a contralateral metastasis and a subsequent metachronous tumor following chemotherapy and consolidation radiotherapy treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Strict follow-up, including physical examination and ultrasound examination of the contralateral testis, enabled early diagnosis of the second tumor, giving the patient a high likelihood of a definitive cure.
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spelling pubmed-48675392016-05-17 Metachronous testicular seminoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a case report Di Gregorio, Marcelo Nollevaux, Marie Cécile Lorge, Francis D’Hondt, Lionel World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Bilateral testicular neoplasia is rare, with an incidence ranging from 1 to 5 %. Long-term survival has improved in recent years due to advanced diagnostic approaches and new therapeutic methods that are highly effective against germ cell tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a patient with a primary seminomatous testicular tumor, who developed a contralateral metastasis and a subsequent metachronous tumor following chemotherapy and consolidation radiotherapy treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Strict follow-up, including physical examination and ultrasound examination of the contralateral testis, enabled early diagnosis of the second tumor, giving the patient a high likelihood of a definitive cure. BioMed Central 2016-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4867539/ /pubmed/27184033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0902-9 Text en © Di Gregorio et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Nollevaux, Marie Cécile
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D’Hondt, Lionel
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title_full Metachronous testicular seminoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a case report
title_fullStr Metachronous testicular seminoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Metachronous testicular seminoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a case report
title_short Metachronous testicular seminoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a case report
title_sort metachronous testicular seminoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4867539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27184033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-0902-9
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