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- Title
Primary anterior mediastinal seminoma.
- Authors
Hurt, Richard D.; Bruckman, James E.; Farrow, George M.; Bernatz, Philip E.; Hahn, Richard G.; Earle, John D.; Hurt, R D; Bruckman, J E; Farrow, G M; Bernatz, P E; Hahn, R G; Earle, J D
- Abstract
A review of the Mayo Clinic experience with primary anterior mediastinal seminomas involved 17 patients who had pure anterior mediastinal seminomas and four who had mixed germ-cell tumors containing seminomas. At follow-up, of the 17 patients with pure anterior mediastinal seminoma, nine had no evidence of disease and eight had died of metastatic disease. Of the four patients with mixed germ-cell tumor containing seminoma, two were alive at follow-up and two had died of metastatic disease. In the group with pure anterior mediastinal seminoma, these factors seemed to have been associated with a greater potential for progression of disease: older than 35 years of age, presentation with fever, superior vena caval syndrome, supraclavicular or cervical adenopathy, and roentgenographic evidence of hilar disease.
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 1982, Vol 49, Issue 8, p1658
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-0142(19820415)49:8<1658::AID-CNCR2820490821>3.0.CO;2-G