Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature

We present a 37-year-old male patient with a mature teratoma of the right testicle with a focus of embryonal carcinoma. This patient’s tumor metastasized radically to the retroperitoneum, right adrenal gland, bilateral lungs, and liver. A metastatic teratoma with embryonal carcinoma in males is a ve...

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Autores principales: Chowdhury, Waliul, Lodhi, Muhammad Uzair, Syed, Intekhab Askari, Rahim, Umar, Rahim, Mustafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29770282
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2329
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author Chowdhury, Waliul
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Rahim, Umar
Rahim, Mustafa
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description We present a 37-year-old male patient with a mature teratoma of the right testicle with a focus of embryonal carcinoma. This patient’s tumor metastasized radically to the retroperitoneum, right adrenal gland, bilateral lungs, and liver. A metastatic teratoma with embryonal carcinoma in males is a very rare case. We will describe our patient’s case, diagnostic workup, and management in detail, in addition to reviewing the related literature.
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spelling pubmed-59535112018-05-16 Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature Chowdhury, Waliul Lodhi, Muhammad Uzair Syed, Intekhab Askari Rahim, Umar Rahim, Mustafa Cureus Family/General Practice We present a 37-year-old male patient with a mature teratoma of the right testicle with a focus of embryonal carcinoma. This patient’s tumor metastasized radically to the retroperitoneum, right adrenal gland, bilateral lungs, and liver. A metastatic teratoma with embryonal carcinoma in males is a very rare case. We will describe our patient’s case, diagnostic workup, and management in detail, in addition to reviewing the related literature. Cureus 2018-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5953511/ /pubmed/29770282 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2329 Text en Copyright © 2018, Chowdhury et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Family/General Practice
Chowdhury, Waliul
Lodhi, Muhammad Uzair
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Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Mature Testicular Teratoma with a Focus of Embryonal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort mature testicular teratoma with a focus of embryonal carcinoma: a case report and review of literature
topic Family/General Practice
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29770282
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2329
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