Pulmonary Embolism as the Initial Presentation of Testicular Carcinoma

Abstract EN

Objective.

The risk of pulmonary embolism is well recognized as showing an increase in oncological patients.

We report a case presenting with pulmonary embolism initially, which was then diagnosed with testicular cancer.

Clinical Presentation and Intervention.

A 25-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with a complaint of dyspnoea.

Thoracic tomography, lung ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy, and an increased D-dimer level revealed pulmonary embolism.

For the aetiology of pulmonary embolism, a left orchiectomy was performed and the patient was diagnosed with a germinal cell tumour of the testicle.

Conclusion.

In this paper, we present a patient for whom pulmonary embolism was the initial presentation, and a germinal cell tumour was diagnosed later during the search for the aetiology.