Pulmonary blastoma with fatal hypercalcemia.
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.
Stancić
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Department of Medicine, University Hospital Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia.
Grbac
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I
Ferencĭć
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Z
Pejsa
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V
Knezevíc
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F
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