A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis

Mediastinal non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCTs) are very rare, with an approximate annual incidence of 500 in the United States. Here, we present a case of a 22-year-old male presenting with hemoptysis who was found to have primary mediastinal NSGCT, endodermal sinus tumor type (or yolk sac t...

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Autores principales: Noor, Muhammad, Leal, Berenice L, Patel, Dhruv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884873
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9517
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description Mediastinal non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCTs) are very rare, with an approximate annual incidence of 500 in the United States. Here, we present a case of a 22-year-old male presenting with hemoptysis who was found to have primary mediastinal NSGCT, endodermal sinus tumor type (or yolk sac type). We review the imaging findings, pathology, and treatment of primary mediastinal endodermal sinus tumors.
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spelling pubmed-74626522020-09-02 A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis Noor, Muhammad Leal, Berenice L Patel, Dhruv Cureus Pathology Mediastinal non-seminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCTs) are very rare, with an approximate annual incidence of 500 in the United States. Here, we present a case of a 22-year-old male presenting with hemoptysis who was found to have primary mediastinal NSGCT, endodermal sinus tumor type (or yolk sac type). We review the imaging findings, pathology, and treatment of primary mediastinal endodermal sinus tumors. Cureus 2020-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7462652/ /pubmed/32884873 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9517 Text en Copyright © 2020, Noor 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.
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A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis
title A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis
title_full A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis
title_short A Rare Case of Primary Mediastinal Endodermal Sinus Tumor Presenting with Hemoptysis
title_sort rare case of primary mediastinal endodermal sinus tumor presenting with hemoptysis
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7462652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884873
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9517
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