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MAJOR GASTROINTESTINAL HAEMORRHAGE FROM A METASTATIC TESTICULAR TERATOMA
Author(s) -
Crookes P. F.,
Cavallo A. V.,
Balasubramaniam G. S.,
Ryan P.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1992.tb07541.x
Subject(s) - medicine , duodenum , teratoma , metastasis , lymph node metastasis , pathology , surgery , cancer
A case is reported of a para‐aortic lymph node metastasis from a testicular teratoma that eroded into the overlying duodenum resulting in severe gastrointestinal haemorrhage.