An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor

Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare malignant type of germ cell tumor (GCT). Extragonadal yolk sac tumor is a very rare entity. We report the case of a 33-year-old male with a pancreatic mass, which proved to be a primary yolk sac tumor, arising in the pancreas.

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Autores principales: Galanis, Ilias, Floros, Georgios, Simou, Magdalini, Kyriakopoulos, Georgios, Stylianidis, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859959
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26007
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author Galanis, Ilias
Floros, Georgios
Simou, Magdalini
Kyriakopoulos, Georgios
Stylianidis, Georgios
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description Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare malignant type of germ cell tumor (GCT). Extragonadal yolk sac tumor is a very rare entity. We report the case of a 33-year-old male with a pancreatic mass, which proved to be a primary yolk sac tumor, arising in the pancreas.
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spelling pubmed-92882292022-07-19 An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor Galanis, Ilias Floros, Georgios Simou, Magdalini Kyriakopoulos, Georgios Stylianidis, Georgios Cureus Internal Medicine Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare malignant type of germ cell tumor (GCT). Extragonadal yolk sac tumor is a very rare entity. We report the case of a 33-year-old male with a pancreatic mass, which proved to be a primary yolk sac tumor, arising in the pancreas. Cureus 2022-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9288229/ /pubmed/35859959 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26007 Text en Copyright © 2022, Galanis 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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Galanis, Ilias
Floros, Georgios
Simou, Magdalini
Kyriakopoulos, Georgios
Stylianidis, Georgios
An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor
title An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor
title_full An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor
title_fullStr An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor
title_full_unstemmed An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor
title_short An Extremely Rare Case of a Primary Pancreatic Yolk Sac Tumor
title_sort extremely rare case of a primary pancreatic yolk sac tumor
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859959
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26007
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