Prostatic relapse of an undifferentiated teratoma 24 years after orchidectomy

Testicular relapse after chemotherapy for malignant teratoma.

She was followed up regularly for almost two years and showed no signs of relapse. She stopped taking antithyroid drugs several times and suffered brief relapses of hyperthyroidism, but without any psychosis. Comment Hyperthyroidism commonly presents with mental changes such as irritability and anxiety, but psychotic symptoms like hallucination and delusion are rare. The review by Ellis and Mel...

Orchidectomy alone for stage I testicular teratoma.

Cervical mature teratoma 17 years after initial treatment of testicular teratocarcinoma: report of a late relapse

BACKGROUND Late relapses of testicular germ cell tumor are uncommon. We report a case of cervical mature teratoma appeared 17 years after treatment of testicular teratocarcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION A 20-year-old patient underwent left sided orchiectomy followed by systemic therapy and retroperitoneal residual mass resection in 1989. He remained in complete remission for 200 months. In 2005 a h...

Prostatic carcinoma presenting with respiratory symptoms: response to orchidectomy.

Accepted 24 March 1984 gestive of interstitial lung disease. The serum acid phosphatase was 48-4 U/I (normal range 0-4 U/i). Respiratory function tests showed a restrictive pattern (table). At bronchoscopy the mucosa was reddened but no endobronchial lesion was seen. Transbronchial biopsy showed aggregates of small polyhedral cells thought to be well differentiated adenocarcinoma with invasion ...

Intrapulmonary teratoma 10 years after removal of a mediastinal teratoma in a young man.

Teratoma is a common tumour of the mediastinum but is rarely found in the lung. The twentieth reported case was published in 1975 by Day and Taylor and four cases have been published since.'-5 A rare condition, not previously recorded, was observed by us in a young male patient. He was found to have a mediastinal teratoma, which was followed 10 years later by the growth of an intrapulmonary ter...