Burned-Out Testicular Carcinoma Presenting as Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus With Pulmonary Tumor Embolism on FDG PET/CT-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Burned-Out Testicular Carcinoma Presenting as Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus With Pulmonary Tumor Embolism on FDG PET/CT

Published:2024-07-16 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1536-0229
Container-title:Clinical Nuclear Medicine
language:en
Short-container-title:Clin Nucl Med

Author:

Shani Shrem Noa¹,Levin Daniel²,Rouvinov Keren¹,Ben-Arie Gal³,Liberzon Ilya⁴,Hod Nir²

Affiliation:

1. Oncology Department

2. Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

3. Diagnostic Imaging Department

4. Pathology Institute, Soroka University Medical Center (Affiliated to Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences), Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Abstract

Abstract “Burned-out” testicular tumor is a very rare clinical phenomenon, which refers to the presence of a metastatic germ cell tumor with no clinical findings in the testicle due to spontaneous regression of the primary testicular lesion. We present an unusual case of burned-out testicular embryonal germ cell carcinoma presenting as an extensive inferior vena cava tumor thrombus with malignant pulmonary embolism in which FDG PET/CT played a pivotal role in detecting the extent and significance of the disease.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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