• Ear Nose Throat J · Aug 2002

    Case Reports

    Extragonadal germ-cell tumor: a rare differential diagnosis of a cervical lump in a young man.

    • Britta Eickhoff, Michael Jaehne, and Florian Langer.
    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. brit_eickhoff@yahoo.com
    • Ear Nose Throat J. 2002 Aug 1;81(8):580-2.

    AbstractIn this case report, we discuss the potential diagnostic difficulty of identifying the cause or origin of a cervical swelling, a clinical situation often encountered in otolaryngology patients. A 30-year-old man came to us with a painless left cervical lump that he had noticed 8 weeks earlier. A series of examinations--including various biopsies, computed tomography, and extensive staging procedures--could not establish the diagnosis. We eventually identified the mass as an extragonadal germ-cell tumor. The diagnosis was established only after additional serologic testing and detection of tumor markers specific for extragonadal germ-cell tumor.

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