Clonal evidence for the progression of a testicular germ cell tumor to angiosarcoma

Hum Pathol. 2010 Jan;41(1):139-144, Muhammad T. Idrees, Matthew Kuhar, Thomas M. Ulbright, Shaobo Zhang, Narsimhan Agaram, Mingsheng Wang, David J. Grignon, John N. Eble, Liang Cheng

Testicular germ cell tumors may have multiple histologic subtypes. Teratoma components are capable of transformation into somatic malignancies. An alternative hypothesis for the development of angiosarcoma in a patient with germ cell tumors is secondary to radiation or chemotherapy. We report a patient with a mixed testicular germ cell tumor who presented with retroperitoneal, mediastinal, and pulmonary metastases after chemotherapy. Forty months after his original diagnosis, a mediastinal angiosarcoma...

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