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Article: Colonic Adenocarcinoma Metastasizing as a Germ Cell Neoplasm.
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
- Author:
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A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Reports of colonic adenocarcinoma with germ cell elements are rare. To date, only 9 cases, to our knowledge, have been reported in the English-language literature.[1-9] Eight cases were choriocarcinoma in combination with adenocarcinoma, one of which also had yolk sac tumor elements. The ninth had only yolk sac tumor elements with the adenocarcinoma.
This is the second reported case, to our knowledge, of a colonic adenocarcinoma with mixed germ cell elements of yolk sac tumor and choriocarcinoma. The neoplasm metastasized as the yolk sac component.
REPORT OF A CASE
A 29-year-old white man ...