Occult gastric signet ring cell carcinoma presenting as spermatic cord and testicular metastases: "Krukenberg tumor" in a male patient

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 206, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 519-521

  Schaefer, Inga Marie ^a   Sauer, Ulfert ^b   Liwocha, Michael ^c   Schorn, Heribert ^d   Loertzer, Hagen ^a   Füzesi, László ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Surgeon   (Germany)

^c Department of Internal Medicine   (Germany)

^d Urologist   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptorchidism; Hypogonadism.; Krukenberg tumor; Signet ring cell carcinoma; Spermatic cord metastases

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CALRETININ; CAPECITABINE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GENE PRODUCT; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY D2-40; MUCIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PANKERATIN; PROTEIN BEREP4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYALINE DEGENERATION; HYDROCELE; HYPOGONADISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INGUINAL REGION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OCCULT CANCER; ORCHIECTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIMARY TUMOR; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCROTAL PAIN; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; SPERMATIC CORD; SPERMATOCELE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL; ANXIETY DISORDER; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYPTORCHISM; DEPRESSION; FATTY LIVER; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HYPERTENSION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SECOND CANCER; SECONDARY; STOMACH TUMOR; TESTIS TUMOR; VOCAL CORD;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHOLECYSTOLITHIASIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATTY LIVER; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; OBESITY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; SPERMATIC CORD; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 77954033504     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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