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CASE REPORT

Isolated solitary bony metastasis of a nonseminomatous germ cell tumor

Abdulhadi Aldejmah¹, Denis Soulières², Fred Saad²

1 Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2 Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Address correspondence to Dr. Fred Saad, Université de Montréal, CHUM, 1560 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal,Quebec H2L 4M1 Canada

Canadian Journal of Urology 2007, 14(1), 3458-3460.

Abstract

Bone metastasis is usually a late manifestation in patients with germ cell tumors and a poor prognosis site. We report a case of 29-year-old man with a nonseminomatous germ cell tumor who presented with a single metastatic site in a vertebrae with spinal compression. He was treated with a left orchiectomy and four cycles of chemotherapy containing bleomycin,etoposide, and cisplatin. He attained complete remission.

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