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Summary
This is a case of a young 34-year-old man who had symptomatic hyperthyroidism from an extremely high serum beta HCG level in the setting of a metastatic stage IIIC mixed germ cell tumour. The patient’s thyroid function normalised with treatment of the cancer as the beta HCG levels declined.
- urological cancer
- thyroid disease
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Footnotes
Contributors DS: responsible for writing, editing, planning and literature review of the case. NK: responsible for editing, literature review of the case and taking consent from the patient’s wife.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Next of kin consent obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.