Primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma

Malignant transformation of teratoma develops in a small subset of testis cancer patients. Primitive neuroectodermal tumor represents a highly malignant component of testicular germ cell tumors. It is a rare clinical entity which is characterized by a high risk of disease progression and death. Surg...

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Autores principales: Karatzas, Anastasios, Papadopoulos, Vasileios, Katsiouli, Vagianna, Pisters, Louis, Papandreou, Christos, Tzortzis, Vassilios
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386097
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/UA.UA_182_17
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author Karatzas, Anastasios
Papadopoulos, Vasileios
Katsiouli, Vagianna
Pisters, Louis
Papandreou, Christos
Tzortzis, Vassilios
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description Malignant transformation of teratoma develops in a small subset of testis cancer patients. Primitive neuroectodermal tumor represents a highly malignant component of testicular germ cell tumors. It is a rare clinical entity which is characterized by a high risk of disease progression and death. Surgical resection plus chemotherapy appears to be the therapy of choice.
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spelling pubmed-61947922018-10-31 Primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma Karatzas, Anastasios Papadopoulos, Vasileios Katsiouli, Vagianna Pisters, Louis Papandreou, Christos Tzortzis, Vassilios Urol Ann Case Report Malignant transformation of teratoma develops in a small subset of testis cancer patients. Primitive neuroectodermal tumor represents a highly malignant component of testicular germ cell tumors. It is a rare clinical entity which is characterized by a high risk of disease progression and death. Surgical resection plus chemotherapy appears to be the therapy of choice. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6194792/ /pubmed/30386097 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/UA.UA_182_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Urology Annals http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Karatzas, Anastasios
Papadopoulos, Vasileios
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Papandreou, Christos
Tzortzis, Vassilios
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title Primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma
title_full Primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma
title_fullStr Primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma
title_full_unstemmed Primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma
title_short Primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma
title_sort primitive neuroectodermal tumor transformation of testicular teratoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386097
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/UA.UA_182_17
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