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Glioblastoma Multiforme after Radiotherapy for Metastatic Brain Tumor of Testicular Cancer

  1. Shigeru Saiki1,
  2. Toshiaki Kinouchi1,*,
  3. Michiyuki Usami1,
  4. Hidemitsu Nakagawa2,
  5. Toshihiko Kotake1

Article first published online: 1 JUL 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.1997.tb00300.x

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International Journal of Urology

International Journal of Urology

Volume 4, Issue 5, pages 527–529, September 1997

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Saiki, S., Kinouchi, T., Usami, M., Nakagawa, H. and Kotake, T. (1997), Glioblastoma Multiforme after Radiotherapy for Metastatic Brain Tumor of Testicular Cancer. International Journal of Urology, 4: 527–529. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.1997.tb00300.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Departments of Urology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

  2. 2

    Departments of Neurosurgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

**Department of Urology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases,1–3–3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537, Japan.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 1 JUL 2007
  2. Article first published online: 1 JUL 2007
  3. Received Nov. 21, 1996; accepted for publication in revised form Mar. 24, 1997.

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Keywords:

  • testicular cancer;
  • radiotherapy;
  • glioblastoma

A patient with left testicular cancer and metastases to retroperitoneal lymph nodes, lung, and brain was treated by chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, and obtained the state of no evidence of disease, but 10 years after radiotherapy, a glioblastoma multiforme tumor appeared in the brain. This is the first report of a glioma appearing after radiotherapy in a testicular cancer patient.

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