Abstract
Summary
The investigation of the urine obtained from a case of teratoma testis has yielded results similar to those obtained with pregnancy urine, except for the avascular corpora lutea, more numerous lutein cysts in the ovary, and a distinctly different uterine appearance. These differences from the typical pregnancy urine effect produce a gross appearance which may be mistaken for a “Prolan A” reaction. Consistent recourse to histologie examination may reveal more cases similar to our own, than is indicated by a perusal of the literature.
Granting the above possibility of error, it still seems necessary to explain the divergence of the results of various workers on the basis of the occurrence of more than one kind of hormone elaborated by the teratoma testis.
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