Novel Case of Metastatic Testicular Immature Teratoma Invading the Duodenum

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  • Timothy V. Johnson
  • Adeboye O. Osunkoya
  • Keith Delman
  • Deborah A. Baumgarten
  • Viraj A. Master
چکیده

We present the first report of an immature teratoma arising from a germ cell testicular cancer invading the duodenum. While other seminomatous and non-seminomatous germ cell tumors are known to metastasize to the duodenum, this is the first such case involving an immature teratoma directly invading the duodenum from a metastatic retroperitoneal mass.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009