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Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review
Testicular germ cell tumors (GCT) are the commonest solid tumors in young men. Typical presentation is with painless scrotal swelling; however, symptoms related to complications or metastasis may be the initial presentation. Gastrointestinal (GI) metastasis is seen in about 5% of patients with germ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654329/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29130004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4789259 |
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author | Shogbesan, Oluwaseun Abdulkareem, Abdullateef Jehangir, Asad Byreddy, Sunila Swierczynski, Sharon Donato, Anthony |
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description | Testicular germ cell tumors (GCT) are the commonest solid tumors in young men. Typical presentation is with painless scrotal swelling; however, symptoms related to complications or metastasis may be the initial presentation. Gastrointestinal (GI) metastasis is seen in about 5% of patients with germ cell tumors and presentation is commonly with GI bleed. It is important to have GCT as a differential diagnosis of GI bleed in young men presenting with unexplained anemia as direct questioning about scrotal swelling and genital examination when appropriate will guide further investigation and facilitate prompt diagnosis. We present a case of a 26-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor and severe anemia secondary to extension and perforation of duodenum by retroperitoneal metastasis and a review of the literature on the gastrointestinal manifestations of testicular germ cell tumors. |
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spelling | pubmed-56543292017-11-12 Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review Shogbesan, Oluwaseun Abdulkareem, Abdullateef Jehangir, Asad Byreddy, Sunila Swierczynski, Sharon Donato, Anthony Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report Testicular germ cell tumors (GCT) are the commonest solid tumors in young men. Typical presentation is with painless scrotal swelling; however, symptoms related to complications or metastasis may be the initial presentation. Gastrointestinal (GI) metastasis is seen in about 5% of patients with germ cell tumors and presentation is commonly with GI bleed. It is important to have GCT as a differential diagnosis of GI bleed in young men presenting with unexplained anemia as direct questioning about scrotal swelling and genital examination when appropriate will guide further investigation and facilitate prompt diagnosis. We present a case of a 26-year-old man with testicular germ cell tumor and severe anemia secondary to extension and perforation of duodenum by retroperitoneal metastasis and a review of the literature on the gastrointestinal manifestations of testicular germ cell tumors. Hindawi 2017 2017-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5654329/ /pubmed/29130004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4789259 Text en Copyright © 2017 Oluwaseun Shogbesan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Shogbesan, Oluwaseun Abdulkareem, Abdullateef Jehangir, Asad Byreddy, Sunila Swierczynski, Sharon Donato, Anthony Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review |
title | Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review |
title_full | Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review |
title_fullStr | Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review |
title_short | Gastrointestinal Involvement of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review |
title_sort | gastrointestinal involvement of testicular germ cell tumor: a case report and literature review |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654329/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29130004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4789259 |
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