title: Pulmonary blastoma with fatal hypercalcemia.
abstract: We describe a 50-year-old, previously healthy male with metastatic pulmonary blastoma associated with hypercalcemic and hyperosmolar complications which caused his death after 5 days. The primary tumor consisted of epithelial [cytokeratin, beta-hCG CEA, neuron-specific enolase (NSE)-positive] and mesenchymal components (beta-hCG, vimentin, NSE-positive, while the metastases had only a mesenchymal component.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University Hospital Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stancić
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Grbac
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ferencĭć
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pejsa
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Knezevíc
mesh_terms: D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000209:etiology*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018202:Pulmonary Blastoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011859:Radiography; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary