Case records of the Massachusetts General Medicine. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 9-2003. An 18-year-old man with back and leg pain and a nondiagnostic biopsy specimen

N Engl J Med. 2003 Mar 20;348(12):1150-8. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030002.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Biopsy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Germinoma / complications
  • Germinoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Germinoma / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Leg
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology
  • Lymphoma / diagnosis
  • Male
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / complications
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Mediastinal Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Mediastinum / diagnostic imaging
  • Mediastinum / pathology*
  • Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / diagnosis
  • Pain / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed