Spontaneous rupture of testicular teratoma.

Chemical meningitis caused by spontaneous rupture of spinal teratoma.

Chemical meningitis is a medical condition characterised by sterile meningitis that usually develops in certain patients after neurosurgical procedures. Its acute clinical course and standard laboratory findings are indistinguishable from those of bacterial meningitis. We hereby describe a case who presented with clinico-investigatory profile suggestive of acute bacterial meningitis. Patient sh...

A giant testicular teratoma.

We report a giant testicular in a 36-year-old farmer man, of 18-month duration admitted to the Surgical Department Erbil Teaching Hospital, Iraq. The tumor was invading the penis and lower part of abdominal wall including bilateral groin lymph nodes. Histological examination revealed mature and immature teratoma. Further investigations showed no evidence of any metastatic lesions apart from a s...

Intracardiac Metastasis from Testicular Teratoma.

Emanuel and Lloyd (1962) have recently re-emphasized the close similarity between the clinical picture of right atrial myxoma and that of constrictive pericarditis. In the case presented here this same clinical picture was produced acutely by a metastasis from a testicular teratoma within the cavities of the right atrium and ventricle. when he developed pleuritic pain in the front of the left s...

Testicular relapse after chemotherapy for malignant teratoma.

She was followed up regularly for almost two years and showed no signs of relapse. She stopped taking antithyroid drugs several times and suffered brief relapses of hyperthyroidism, but without any psychosis. Comment Hyperthyroidism commonly presents with mental changes such as irritability and anxiety, but psychotic symptoms like hallucination and delusion are rare. The review by Ellis and Mel...

Orchidectomy alone for stage I testicular teratoma.