Polycythemia and steroid overproduction
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O. Reman; Y. Reznik; N. Casadevall; C. Lacombe; X. Troussard; J. C. Mandard; M.
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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While investigating the cause of mild polycythemia in a young man, a testicular seminoma was discovered with unusual and tumor-dependent features: an absolute polycythemia with high plasma erythropoietin (EPO) levels, an overproduction of estradiol and testosterone, and a dramatic Leydig cell hyperp