1. Metastatic sacrococcygeal yolk sac tumor: A misleading diagnosis
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Sarra Ben Arous, Nejib Hattab, Atef Ben Nsir, and M. Darmoul
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sacrococcygeal tumor ,Sphincter disturbances ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Anal fissure ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Conus medullaris compression ,General Neuroscience ,extra-gonadal yolk sac tumor ,Case Report ,Physical examination ,medicine.disease ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,Conus medullaris ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine ,Spinal metastasis ,prognosis ,Neurology (clinical) ,Yolk sac ,business ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry - Abstract
Sacrococcygeal yolk sac tumor (YST) is an extremely rare malignant extra-gonadal germ-cell tumor, which usually succeeds to the degeneration of more common benign teratoma.We describe here an unprecedented case of conus medullaris compression by a spinal metastasis from a pure sacrococcygeal YST in a 1½ years old girl, which was misdiagnosed initially as an anal fissure and stress the need of a meticulous clinical examination and further screening in young patients presenting with sphincter disturbances.
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- 2015
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