Testicular embryonal cell carcinoma metastasizing to the site of a previously excised cerebellar haemangioblastoma

Br J Neurosurg. 1996 Apr;10(2):197-200. doi: 10.1080/02688699650040377.

Abstract

We report a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease in whom a metastatic embryonal cell carcinoma from the testis occurred at exactly the same site from which a cerebellar haemangioblastoma had been excised 12 years earlier.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Carcinoma, Embryonal / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Embryonal / secondary*
  • Carcinoma, Embryonal / surgery
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / pathology
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Cerebellum / pathology
  • Cerebellum / surgery
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Hemangioblastoma / pathology
  • Hemangioblastoma / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary / pathology
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary / surgery*
  • Postoperative Complications / pathology
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery*
  • Reoperation
  • Testicular Neoplasms / pathology
  • Testicular Neoplasms / surgery*