Publications by authors named "Takuo Fukuyama"
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- A 75-year-old woman experienced intermittent blood in her urine and urinary retention for 7 months, leading to the discovery of a mass in her vaginal wall.
- After various diagnostic tests, she was diagnosed with a urethral diverticular tumor that turned out to be adenocarcinoma.
- The patient underwent chemotherapy and radiation, followed by surgery, and two years later showed no signs of cancer recurrence, marking a unique case of multimodal treatment for this rare condition.
A variety of regimens of high-dose chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem cell support for poor risk germ cell tumors have been established. However, a series of chemotherapy steps carried out prior to the harvest sometimes leads to an insufficient number of peripheral blood stem cells. Here, we report a case of a patient who successfully underwent high-dose chemotherapy for the treatment of poor risk extragonadal germ cell tumor by receiving peripheral blood stem cell transplantation donated from his genomically identical twin brother.
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