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OBJECTIVE: Extragonadal germ cell tumor is a rare condition. The present study reports an additional case of this uncommon disease. METHODS/RESULTS: A 24-year-old male with retroperitoneal disease and a testicular lesion detected by ultrasonography is described. Histopathological analysis of the orchiectomy specimen disclosed a 'burned out' tumor. The anatomopathological features of this tumor type are discussed. CONCLUSION: Extragonadal germ cell tumor is a rare condition. It derives from the germ cells that exist in the gonad and is located in every anatomical region but the gonad itself. Ultrasonography must be performed if an extragonadal germ cell tumor is suspected.
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Germinoma , Neoplasms, Multiple Primary , Retroperitoneal Neoplasms , Testicular Neoplasms , Adult , Germinoma/diagnosis , Humans , Male , Neoplasms, Multiple Primary/diagnosis , Retroperitoneal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Testicular Neoplasms/diagnosisABSTRACT
A retrospective revision of 8 splenic hydatid cyst cases which underwent surgery in our Department over a period of 19 years is presented. Its rareness, clinical and diagnostic aspects, as well as the association to hydatidosis in other organs are pointed out presenting the results of surgical treatment and patients' evolution.
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Echinococcosis/diagnosis , Echinococcosis/surgery , Splenic Diseases/parasitology , Splenic Diseases/surgery , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
Two patients with neurogenic gastrointestinal tumors are reported. One of them was a gangliocytic paraganglioma of the duodenum. The second one, a jejunal tumors in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease (ganglioneuroma). The neural crest origin of these tumours is discussed.
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Duodenal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Ganglioneuroma/diagnosis , Jejunal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Neurofibromatosis 1/diagnosis , Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal/diagnosis , Adult , Biopsy , Duodenal Neoplasms/pathology , Duodenum/pathology , Female , Ganglioneuroma/pathology , Humans , Jejunal Neoplasms/pathology , Jejunum/pathology , Male , Neurofibromatosis 1/pathology , Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal/pathologyABSTRACT
We present a case of primitive renal pelvis and calix adenocarcinoma. The clinical evaluation was carried out by means of UIV, echography and TC. Although the tumoral type diagnosis is histologic, the clinical manifestations of chronic renal infection-inflammation, whether associated with obstruction and/or lithiasis or not, are suggestive of this possibility.
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Adenocarcinoma/pathology , Kidney Neoplasms/pathology , Kidney Pelvis , Adenocarcinoma/diagnostic imaging , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Humans , Kidney Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Male , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
We made a retrospective analysis of 43 cases of primary tumor of the small intestine, 28 benign and 15 malignant, diagnosed and treated in our hospital over a period of 18 years. A preoperative diagnosis was reached in 13 cases (30%), while in 37.2% the tumor was a casual finding during operation by other methods. The remaining 32.5% debuted as acute abdomen and were an emergency surgical indication. Simple tumoral resection was practiced in 19 cases (44.1%) of benign tumor, intestinal resection with end-to-end anastomosis in 22 cases (51%) and only biopsy in two cases (4.6%). Coadjuvant chemotherapy was given to five patients (11.5%) and radiotherapy to one (2.3%). The one-year survival for malignant tumors was 73%, and only 18% (2 cases) survived more than 5 years after the operation).
