2023-06-29 17:30:00
In Jordan, a 42-year-old man went to his doctor because he was suffering from severe pain on the left side of his stomach. His practitioner asked him to carry out a battery of examinations, including a pregnancy test without it being specified why he was making this prescription. The patient “got a positive result on this pregnancy test, which completely surprised the whole clinic”said, to the newspaper The Jerusalem Post, Dr. Hussam Abu Farsakh, a Jordanian expert in histopathology. First, the medical team was baffled, then the following findings quickly worried them.
A metastatic tumor in the liver detected thanks to a positive pregnancy test
To understand why the pregnancy test came back positive, the medical professionals asked her to carry out additional examinations. These revealed that the 40-year-old was secreting pregnancy hormones due to a metastatic tumor in the liver. “After an abdominal CT scan, we took several samples of the tumor. Microscopic examination confirmed that the tumor was secreting pregnancy hormones, which led to a positive pregnancy test,” explained Dr. Hussam Abu Farsakh. According to the doctors, this case is considered a rare medical anomaly, requiring specialized treatment.
Pregnancy test also revealed testicular cancer
This is not the first time that a story like this has been relayed. In 2015, a young American also accidentally discovered a cancerous tumor on his testicle, once more thanks to a pregnancy test. He had taken the test to make his friends laugh. But, the latter detected the pregnancy hormone, namely Beta-hCG. Once the result came out positive, the patient decided to see a doctor who diagnosed him with cancer on his right testicle. Quickly, the practitioners operated on him. After this surgery, the young man was doing well.
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