A 27-year-old man with a painful retroperitoneal mass

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A 27-year-old man was hospitalized with severe abdominal pain and nausea. A CT scan of his abdomen showed a mass outside the peritoneum, which is the membrane that lines the inside of the abdominal cavity. His doctors suspected that he had a germ cell tumor. These are tumors that arise in the testes or ovaries. The mass was biopsied using a needle and microscopic examination showed that it was a seminoma. An ultrasound scan showed a mass in his right testis, and the testis was removed. No tumor was found in the testis. He was treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

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An 18-year-old man with back and leg pain and a nondiagnostic biopsy specimen

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An 18-year-old boy with back and leg pain was found to have a germinoma in his chest that had spread to his spine. Germinoma is a cancer that usually affects the sex organs, but it can affect other parts of the body. He was successfully treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Thoracic cancer

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Case 13-2007: A 46-year-old woman with gynecologic and intestinal cancers

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A case of middle-aged woman with uterine and colonic cancer is discussed in this article. With analysis of various tests the doctors arrive at a conclusion that patient was suffering from hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) or the Lynch syndrome caused by gene mutations.

Diagnosis, Colorectal cancer, Genetic aspects, Clinical report

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