Objective. The risk of pulmonary embolism is well recognized as showing an increase in oncological patients. We report a case presenting with pulmonary embolism initially, which was then diagnosed with testicular cancer. Clinical Presentation and Intervention. A 25-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with a complaint of dyspnoea. Thoracic tomography, lung ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy, and an increased D-dimer level revealed pulmonary embolism. For the aetiology of pulmonary embolism, a left orchiectomy was performed and the patient was diagnosed with a germinal cell tumour of the testicle. Conclusion. In this paper, we present a patient for whom pulmonary embolism was the initial presentation, and a germinal cell tumour was diagnosed later during the search for the aetiology.
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Berber I1, Bentli R2, Erkurt MA1, Ulutas O3, Ediz C4, Nizam I1, Kırıcı Berber N5, Unlu S6, Koroglu R7, Koroglu M1, Akpolat N8 Are you the author?
1Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. 2Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. 3Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. 4Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. 5Department of Chest, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. 6Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. 7Department of Nuclear, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. 8Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey.
Reference: Case Rep Oncol Med. 2013;2013:264569 (Epub 2013 Dec 9)
doi: 10.1155/2013/264569
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24383024
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