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A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury

Mediastinal seminomas are rare neoplasms that can be found incidentally in asymptomatic patients. However, a few cases may present in the emergency room with mild to severe respiratory and/or cardiovascular symptoms. This can occur when the tumor grows large enough to cause compression and obstructi...

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Autores principales: Colon Ramos, Ana, Tarekegn, Kidist, Ciobanu, Camelia, Sequeira Gross, Harry G, Vigoda, Ivette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007775
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14527
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author Colon Ramos, Ana
Tarekegn, Kidist
Ciobanu, Camelia
Sequeira Gross, Harry G
Vigoda, Ivette
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description Mediastinal seminomas are rare neoplasms that can be found incidentally in asymptomatic patients. However, a few cases may present in the emergency room with mild to severe respiratory and/or cardiovascular symptoms. This can occur when the tumor grows large enough to cause compression and obstruction of the various structures present in the thorax. Here we present a case of a large medium mediastinal seminoma that grew to the extent of causing pulmonary artery compression which led to chronic passive backflow through the hepatic veins and hepatic congestion. This case was remarkable as well for the presence of testicular microlithiasis, a rare feature with unknown significance to date. 
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spelling pubmed-81211932021-05-17 A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury Colon Ramos, Ana Tarekegn, Kidist Ciobanu, Camelia Sequeira Gross, Harry G Vigoda, Ivette Cureus Urology Mediastinal seminomas are rare neoplasms that can be found incidentally in asymptomatic patients. However, a few cases may present in the emergency room with mild to severe respiratory and/or cardiovascular symptoms. This can occur when the tumor grows large enough to cause compression and obstruction of the various structures present in the thorax. Here we present a case of a large medium mediastinal seminoma that grew to the extent of causing pulmonary artery compression which led to chronic passive backflow through the hepatic veins and hepatic congestion. This case was remarkable as well for the presence of testicular microlithiasis, a rare feature with unknown significance to date.  Cureus 2021-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8121193/ /pubmed/34007775 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14527 Text en Copyright © 2021, Colon Ramos et al. https://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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Colon Ramos, Ana
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Ciobanu, Camelia
Sequeira Gross, Harry G
Vigoda, Ivette
A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury
title A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury
title_full A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury
title_fullStr A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury
title_short A Case of Primary Mediastinal Seminoma Associated With Testicular Microlithiasis and Liver Injury
title_sort case of primary mediastinal seminoma associated with testicular microlithiasis and liver injury
topic Urology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007775
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14527
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