Diagnosis and prognosis of malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objectives: The objective of this study is to evaluate the diagnosis and prognosis of malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis through an additional 6 patients with urogenital mesothelioma.Methods: Six patients with urogenital mesothelioma who underwent adequate surgical procedures and histopathologic analysis from 1990 to 2009 were identified and retrospectively reviewed.Results: Six patients between the ages of 26 and 78 years with urogenital mesothelioma, 5 of which originated in the scrotum and 1 in the spermatic cord. Histopathologic analysis showed that CK5/6 and calretinin were positive in all cases, 5 cases were positive for vimentin, and 1 case showed focal weak positive reaction with MOC3, but none of the cases stained for CEA or CD15. The overall recurrence rate of urogenital mesothelioma after surgery was 5/6, including local recurrences and fatalities due to tumour.Conclusions: In cases of mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis, the histopathologic markers we chose helped confirm the histopathological diagnosis; adequate surgical procedures are typically not curative, and this tumour is often fatal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".