Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis

Testicular cancer, particularly seminoma, is associated with Down syndrome. In cognitively impaired patients, the typical presenting signs of testicular cancer may be missed, and atypical presenting features may be the only clue to the diagnosis. In this report, we present the case of a 38-year-old...

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Autores principales: Hengy, Meredith, Hinge, Amita, Purtell, James P, Shango, Kathren, Collins, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9552953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36237752
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29037
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author Hengy, Meredith
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Shango, Kathren
Collins, Joshua
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description Testicular cancer, particularly seminoma, is associated with Down syndrome. In cognitively impaired patients, the typical presenting signs of testicular cancer may be missed, and atypical presenting features may be the only clue to the diagnosis. In this report, we present the case of a 38-year-old male who presented with extensive deep vein thrombosis in the setting of seminoma.
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spelling pubmed-95529532022-10-12 Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis Hengy, Meredith Hinge, Amita Purtell, James P Shango, Kathren Collins, Joshua Cureus Internal Medicine Testicular cancer, particularly seminoma, is associated with Down syndrome. In cognitively impaired patients, the typical presenting signs of testicular cancer may be missed, and atypical presenting features may be the only clue to the diagnosis. In this report, we present the case of a 38-year-old male who presented with extensive deep vein thrombosis in the setting of seminoma. Cureus 2022-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9552953/ /pubmed/36237752 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29037 Text en Copyright © 2022, Hengy 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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Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis
title Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis
title_full Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis
title_fullStr Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis
title_short Metastatic Testicular Seminoma in a Patient With Down Syndrome Presenting As Extensive Deep Venous Thrombosis
title_sort metastatic testicular seminoma in a patient with down syndrome presenting as extensive deep venous thrombosis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9552953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36237752
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29037
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