Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period

Acute spinal cord compression in the immediate postoperative period from a possible choriocarcinoma syndrome (CCS) on hemorrhagic epidural spinal metastasis has never been described before and needs to be promptly recognized and managed. A low hemoglobin associated with choriocarcinoma should raise...

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Autores principales: Mukendi, Alain Mwamba, Friedman, Robin, Ismail, Abdullah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2131
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description Acute spinal cord compression in the immediate postoperative period from a possible choriocarcinoma syndrome (CCS) on hemorrhagic epidural spinal metastasis has never been described before and needs to be promptly recognized and managed. A low hemoglobin associated with choriocarcinoma should raise suspicion of this syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-65099272019-05-20 Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period Mukendi, Alain Mwamba Friedman, Robin Ismail, Abdullah Clin Case Rep Case Reports Acute spinal cord compression in the immediate postoperative period from a possible choriocarcinoma syndrome (CCS) on hemorrhagic epidural spinal metastasis has never been described before and needs to be promptly recognized and managed. A low hemoglobin associated with choriocarcinoma should raise suspicion of this syndrome. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6509927/ /pubmed/31110723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2131 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period
title Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period
title_full Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period
title_fullStr Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period
title_full_unstemmed Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period
title_short Malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period
title_sort malignant epidural spinal cord compression secondary to testicular cancer (mixed choriocarcinoma and seminoma) in the immediate post radical orchidectomy period
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2131
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