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Mediastinal germ cell tumor with somatic-type malignancy: report of 5 stage I/II cases.

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
The Annals of thoracic surgery (impact factor: 3.74). 09/2010; 90(3):1014-6. DOI:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.081 pp.1014-6
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ABSTRACT Among 15 patients with primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumors experienced during the past 12 years, 5 were diagnosed with germ cell tumors with somatic-type malignancy. The pretreatment stages were stage I in 2 patients and stage II in 3. All 5 patients received perioperative chemotherapy plus surgical resection, and 4 remain alive without relapse, with a mean follow-up of 60 months.

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Keywords

germ cell tumors
 
mean follow-up
 
perioperative chemotherapy
 
pretreatment stages
 
primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumors
 
stage II
 
surgical resection