Choriocarcinoma is very rare malignancy, accounting for less than 1%of all testicular germ cell tumor. However, it is an important disease in the field of oncology, as it represents a highly curable malignancy, and one in which the incidence is
focused
on young patients at their peak of productivity. In nonseminomatous germ cell testis tumor, assessment of prognostic factors is related to develop a basis for more rational therapy for each individual patient. Along with prognostic staging,
appropriate
treatment shoud be applied to each patient to improve disease-free survival. And, surgical resection of residual masses after cisplatin-based chemotherapy is an established adjuvant to chemotherapy, because complete remission can be improved
about
10%
with appropriately time d complete resection of residual diseases. So, we report a cases of a 27-year old male patient with testicular choriocarcinoma who presented with multiple lung metastases after radical orchiectomy. He received lung wedge
resection after 8 cycles of cisplatin, etoposide, ifosfamide combination chemotherapy, and complete remission was confirmed and maintained.
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