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GASTRIC LOCALIZATION OF ENDODERMAL SINUS TUMOUR
Author(s) -
Møller J. E.,
Raahave D.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1974.tb03841.x
Subject(s) - lung , autopsy , medicine , metastasis , teratoma , sinus (botany) , abdomen , endodermal sinus tumor , thorax (insect anatomy) , stomach , anatomy , pathology , germ cell tumors , surgery , biology , cancer , chemotherapy , botany , genus
The rare, malignant germ cell tumour, endodermal sinus tumour, may also have an extragonadal localization. A case of gastric localization is presented. Palliative resection of the bleeding tumour was performed, including partial hepatectomy. A cavity developed between the abdomen and the left half of the thorax, which became infected postoperatively, resulting in septicaemia and death in the course of renewed attempts at drainage. At autopsy an adult teratoma was found in the one testis, just as teratomata had been removed three years previously from both lung hila. It is suggested that the endodermal sinus tumour in the stomach may have been a metastasis from one of these teratomata or a stage in a multiple teratoid anlage.