https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1206

Pulmonary metastasis: very late relapse of testicular embryonal carcinoma

Vol. 90 No. 1 (2020)
Submitted: November 30, 2019
Accepted: January 28, 2020
Published: April 8, 2020
embryonal carcinoma, pulmonary metastasis, lung cancer, testicular cancer
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Martina Flora
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy.
Adriano Costigliola
adriano.costigliola@studenti.unicampania.it
Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, reparto di pneumologia, ospedale Monaldi, Italy.
Sabrina Lavoretano
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy.
Mariano Mollica
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy.
Carmelindo M.E. Tranfa
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy.
Fabio Perrotta
Department of Medicine and Health Sciences V. Tiberio, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
Cecilia Calabrese
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy.

Testicular carcinoma recurrences represent a rare finding (1-6% in non-seminomatous germ cell tumours). However, cases of recurrence have been described many years later. We report a case of late recurrence of embryonic testicular carcinoma, after 26 years, with pulmonary metastases. Following evidence of increase of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), the patient underwent a total body computed tomography scan that exhibited two pulmonary nodules, one in upper left lobe and other in left hilar region with multiple mediastinal and retrocrural lymph node enlargements All consolidations showed increased sugar uptake value at PET CT. Biopsies of lung consolidations confirmed diagnosis of recurrence of testicular carcinoma.

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Flora, Martina, Adriano Costigliola, Sabrina Lavoretano, Mariano Mollica, Carmelindo M.E. Tranfa, Fabio Perrotta, and Cecilia Calabrese. 2020. “Pulmonary Metastasis: Very Late Relapse of Testicular Embryonal Carcinoma”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 90 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1206.

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