PMID- 16448440
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060613
LR  - 20220309
IS  - 0919-8172 (Print)
IS  - 0919-8172 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 1
DP  - 2006 Jan
TI  - Intra-abdominal desmoid tumor following retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for 
      testicular germ cell tumor.
PG  - 84-6
AB  - In the testicular cancer post-treatment setting a rapidly growing retroperitoneal 
      mass leads to a differential diagnosis including recurrent germ cell tumor, 
      residual mature teratoma, or sarcomatoid degeneration. We report the case of a 
      27-year-old man with a large abdominal mass occurring in the setting of a mixed 
      germ cell tumor after radical orchiectomy with primary chemotherapy followed by 
      retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Surgical excision of this mass followed by 
      pathological review revealed an intra-abdominal desmoid tumor. Fluorescence in 
      situ hybridization (FISH) for isochromosome 12p failed to demonstrate a germ cell 
      tumor origin. This is the fourth such case of an intra-abdominal desmoid tumor 
      after retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testicular cancer in the urologic 
      literature. This case highlights the need for careful consideration of a desmoid 
      tumor when a rapidly growing spindle cell tumor is encountered in a 
      post-treatment testis cancer patient.
FAU - Lawatsch, Eric J
AU  - Lawatsch EJ
AD  - Department of Urology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
FAU - Datta, Milton W
AU  - Datta MW
FAU - Van Tuinen, Peter
AU  - Van Tuinen P
FAU - Sudakoff, Gary S
AU  - Sudakoff GS
FAU - Davis, Nancy B
AU  - Davis NB
FAU - Langenstroer, Peter
AU  - Langenstroer P
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Australia
TA  - Int J Urol
JT  - International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological 
      Association
JID - 9440237
SB  - IM
MH  - Abdominal Neoplasms/*complications/diagnosis/surgery
MH  - Adult
MH  - Diagnosis, Differential
MH  - Fibromatosis, Aggressive/*complications/diagnosis/surgery
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - Laparotomy
MH  - *Lymph Node Excision
MH  - Male
MH  - Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal/diagnosis/*surgery
MH  - Orchiectomy/adverse effects
MH  - Retroperitoneal Space
MH  - Testicular Neoplasms/diagnosis/*surgery
MH  - Tomography, X-Ray Computed
EDAT- 2006/02/02 09:00
MHDA- 2006/06/14 09:00
CRDT- 2006/02/02 09:00
PHST- 2006/02/02 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/06/14 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/02/02 09:00 [entrez]
AID - IJU [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01231.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Urol. 2006 Jan;13(1):84-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01231.x.