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A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid

Testicular cancer is one of the most curable cancers. However, the course of the disease largely depends on the clinical stage at diagnosis, and there are still cases where the tumor size is large, which makes surgical treatment challenging. A 30-year-old man presented with painless, extremely enlar...

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Autores principales: Majewska, Karolina, Zawolik, Wiktoria, Targoński, Aleksander, Tkocz, Michał
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8943395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35342715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2022.102057
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author Majewska, Karolina
Zawolik, Wiktoria
Targoński, Aleksander
Tkocz, Michał
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Targoński, Aleksander
Tkocz, Michał
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description Testicular cancer is one of the most curable cancers. However, the course of the disease largely depends on the clinical stage at diagnosis, and there are still cases where the tumor size is large, which makes surgical treatment challenging. A 30-year-old man presented with painless, extremely enlarged scrotum. A CT scan revealed a tumor of the right testis of 21.5 × 15 × 18cm in size. The patient underwent a right orchiectomy and histologic examination revealed teratocarcinoma. Suspicion of hydrocele testis should prompt meticulous differential diagnosis including malignancies. There is a strong need to increase public awareness in terms of symptoms of testicular cancer.
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spelling pubmed-89433952022-03-25 A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid Majewska, Karolina Zawolik, Wiktoria Targoński, Aleksander Tkocz, Michał Urol Case Rep Oncology Testicular cancer is one of the most curable cancers. However, the course of the disease largely depends on the clinical stage at diagnosis, and there are still cases where the tumor size is large, which makes surgical treatment challenging. A 30-year-old man presented with painless, extremely enlarged scrotum. A CT scan revealed a tumor of the right testis of 21.5 × 15 × 18cm in size. The patient underwent a right orchiectomy and histologic examination revealed teratocarcinoma. Suspicion of hydrocele testis should prompt meticulous differential diagnosis including malignancies. There is a strong need to increase public awareness in terms of symptoms of testicular cancer. Elsevier 2022-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8943395/ /pubmed/35342715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2022.102057 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Oncology
Majewska, Karolina
Zawolik, Wiktoria
Targoński, Aleksander
Tkocz, Michał
A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid
title A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid
title_full A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid
title_fullStr A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid
title_short A rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid
title_sort rare case of giant teratocarcinoma of the testis with accumulation of fluid
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8943395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35342715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2022.102057
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