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Peutz-Jeghers syndrome is associated with an increased frequency of gastrointestinal and extraintestinal malignancies. Ultrasound, CT, and MRI findings of testicular metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma in a boy with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome are presented.
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Aideyan, U.O., Kao, S.C.S. Gastric adenocarcinoma metastatic to the testes in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. Pediatr Radiol 24, 496–497 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02015010
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