PMID- 19263711
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090331
LR  - 20090306
IS  - 0004-5772 (Print)
IS  - 0004-5772 (Linking)
VI  - 56
DP  - 2008 Oct
TI  - Testicular mixed germ cell tumor metastasizing to heart.
PG  - 812-5
AB  - A 21 years old male presented with low grade fever, hemoptysis and progressively 
      increasing dyspnoea of four month duration followed by acutely developing 
      dizziness, hypotension, convulsion and altered sensorium. He had been operated 
      (left inguinal orchidectomy) for left testicular swelling two years back with 
      high alpha-fetoprotein and normal beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG). 
      In view of this a possibility of metastasis secondary to a malignant testicular 
      tumor was considered. Echocardiography demonstrated a large intracardiac mass, 
      chest computed tomography (CT) revealed intracardiac mass, mediastinal masses and 
      left sided pleural effusion. The histopathology revealed testicular mixed germ 
      cell tumor (MGCT). This case is presented to demonstrate uncommon cardiac 
      manifestations of secondary spread of testicular malignancy.
FAU - Avasthi, R
AU  - Avasthi R
AD  - Department of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, 
      Delhi.
FAU - Chaudhary, S C
AU  - Chaudhary SC
FAU - Mohanty, D
AU  - Mohanty D
FAU - Mishra, Kiran
AU  - Mishra K
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - J Assoc Physicians India
JT  - The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
JID - 7505585
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Echocardiography
MH  - Endodermal Sinus Tumor/pathology/secondary
MH  - Fatal Outcome
MH  - Heart Neoplasms/pathology/*secondary
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal/*pathology/surgery
MH  - Orchiectomy
MH  - Teratoma/pathology/*secondary/surgery
MH  - Testicular Neoplasms/*pathology/surgery
MH  - Tomography, X-Ray Computed
EDAT- 2009/03/07 09:00
MHDA- 2009/04/01 09:00
CRDT- 2009/03/07 09:00
PHST- 2009/03/07 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/03/07 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/04/01 09:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Assoc Physicians India. 2008 Oct;56:812-5.