Cannonball Metastatic Lesions in a Young Male: A Case Report

Testicular germ cell tumors are the most common malignancy among young men. These are highly chemo-sensitive tumors with high cure rates. More than 95% of patients with testicular cancer present with a painless testicular mass. Here we describe a rare initial presentation of testicular cancer in a p...

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Autores principales: Arora, Zubin, Duggal, Abhijit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147385
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon786w
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description Testicular germ cell tumors are the most common malignancy among young men. These are highly chemo-sensitive tumors with high cure rates. More than 95% of patients with testicular cancer present with a painless testicular mass. Here we describe a rare initial presentation of testicular cancer in a previously asymptomatic 22-year-old male who presented with widespread metastatic cannonball lesions in his lungs.
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spelling pubmed-56498812017-11-16 Cannonball Metastatic Lesions in a Young Male: A Case Report Arora, Zubin Duggal, Abhijit World J Oncol Case Report Testicular germ cell tumors are the most common malignancy among young men. These are highly chemo-sensitive tumors with high cure rates. More than 95% of patients with testicular cancer present with a painless testicular mass. Here we describe a rare initial presentation of testicular cancer in a previously asymptomatic 22-year-old male who presented with widespread metastatic cannonball lesions in his lungs. Elmer Press 2014-04 2014-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5649881/ /pubmed/29147385 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/wjon786w Text en Copyright 2014, Arora et al. 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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