Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding
Testicular germ cell tumors (GCTs) metastasize in a very predictable fashion involving the retroperitoneal nodes first followed by hematogenous spread to distant organs like lungs, liver, and brain. Metastasis to heart is an extremely rare entity for GCT and fewer than 20 cases have been reported in...
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| description | Testicular germ cell tumors (GCTs) metastasize in a very predictable fashion involving the retroperitoneal nodes first followed by hematogenous spread to distant organs like lungs, liver, and brain. Metastasis to heart is an extremely rare entity for GCT and fewer than 20 cases have been reported in the literature so far. We have summarized here a unique case of nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT) with intracardiac metastasis resulting in systemic macroembolization to liver, spleen, brain, bowel and musculoskeletal tissues. This led to multiple adverse sequelae including ischemic stroke and bowel perforation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b5f7506095524c8cbf1e290c6a1f85ed2025-02-03T06:42:04ZengWileyCase Reports in Oncological Medicine2090-67062090-67142014-01-01201410.1155/2014/250531250531Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor SeedingSrinath Sundararajan0Beth Braunhut1Frederick Ahmann2Amit Agarwal3Department of Hematology-Oncology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USADepartment of Pathology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USADepartment of Hematology-Oncology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USADepartment of Hematology-Oncology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USATesticular germ cell tumors (GCTs) metastasize in a very predictable fashion involving the retroperitoneal nodes first followed by hematogenous spread to distant organs like lungs, liver, and brain. Metastasis to heart is an extremely rare entity for GCT and fewer than 20 cases have been reported in the literature so far. We have summarized here a unique case of nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT) with intracardiac metastasis resulting in systemic macroembolization to liver, spleen, brain, bowel and musculoskeletal tissues. This led to multiple adverse sequelae including ischemic stroke and bowel perforation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/250531 |
| spellingShingle | Srinath Sundararajan Beth Braunhut Frederick Ahmann Amit Agarwal Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding Case Reports in Oncological Medicine |
| title | Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding |
| title_full | Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding |
| title_fullStr | Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding |
| title_short | Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding |
| title_sort | mixed germ cell testicular cancer with left ventricular metastasis presenting with embolic stroke and small bowel tumor seeding |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/250531 |
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