Glioblastoma multiforme after radiotherapy for metastatic brain tumor of testicular cancer.
A patient with left testicular cancer and metastases to retroperitoneal lymph nodes, lung, and brain was treated by chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, and obtained the state of no evidence of disease, but 10 years after radiotherapy, a glioblastoma multiforme tumor appeared in the brain. This is the first report of a glioma appearing after radiotherapy in a testicular cancer patient.
Saiki
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Department of Urology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan.
Kinouchi
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Usami
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Nakagawa
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Kotake
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D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000473:pathology*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed