Growing Teratoma Syndrome: A Rare Outcome

Growing teratoma syndrome is a rare condition described in both testicular and ovarian cancer. We present a case of a 26-year-old male with known mixed germ cell tumor which exhibited new and progressive secondary lesions during imaging surveillance, later to be histologically characterized as terat...

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Autores principales: Rebelo, João, Moreira, Francisco, Morgado, Margarida, Preto, Ana Sofia, Madureira, António
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7801081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33489412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8884787
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Sumario:Growing teratoma syndrome is a rare condition described in both testicular and ovarian cancer. We present a case of a 26-year-old male with known mixed germ cell tumor which exhibited new and progressive secondary lesions during imaging surveillance, later to be histologically characterized as teratomas.

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