Ewha Med J.  1995 Sep;18(3):269-275. 10.12771/emj.1995.18.3.269.

Wedge Resection of Lung Metastasis after Chemotherapy in Patients with Testicular Choriocarcinoma

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
  • 2Department of Urology, Medical College, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
  • 3Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical College, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
  • 4Department of Pathology, Medical College, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Abstract

Choriocarcinonla is very rare malignancy, accounting for less than 1% of all testicular germcell tumor. However, it is an important disease in the field of oncology, as it represents ahighly curable malignancy. and one in which the incidence is focused on young patients attheir peak of productivity. In nonserninomatous germ cell testis tumor, assessment of prognosticfactors is related to develop a basis for more rational therapy for each individual patient.Along with prognostic staging, appropriate treatment shoud be applied to each patient to improve disease-free survival. And. surgical resection of residual masses after cisplatin-based chemotherapy is an established adjuvant to chemotherapy, because complete remission can be improvedabout 10% with appropriately timed complete resection of residual diseases. So, we reporta case of a 27-year old male patient with testicular choriocarcinoma who presented with multiplelung metastases after radical orchiectomy. He recieved lung wedge resection after 8 cycles ofcisplatin, etoposide, ifosfamide combination chemotherapy. and complete remission was confirmed and maintained.

Keyword

Choriocarcinoma; Testis; Lung Metastasis; Wedge resection

MeSH Terms

Choriocarcinoma*
Disease-Free Survival
Drug Therapy*
Drug Therapy, Combination
Efficiency
Etoposide
Female
Germ Cells
Humans
Ifosfamide
Incidence
Lung*
Male
Neoplasm Metastasis*
Orchiectomy
Pregnancy
Testis
Etoposide
Ifosfamide
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