"Germinoma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A malignant neoplasm of the germinal tissue of the GONADS; MEDIASTINUM; or pineal region. Germinomas are uniform in appearance, consisting of large, round cells with vesicular nuclei and clear or finely granular eosinophilic-staining cytoplasm. (Stedman, 265th ed; from DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, pp1642-3)
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D018237
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.465.330
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Germinoma" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of tumor markers on diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in CNS germ cell tumors: correlations with clinical practice and histopathology. Brain Tumor Pathol. 2023 Apr; 40(2):124-132.
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Germination of Germinoma Treatment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2019 08 01; 104(5):967-968.
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Pineal germinoma. South Med J. 2010 Oct; 103(10):1031-7.
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Loss of Fhit expression in testicular germ cell tumors and intratubular germ cell neoplasia. Mod Pathol. 2002 Oct; 15(10):1068-72.
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Human germ cell tumours: expression of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and sensitivity to cisplatin. Br J Cancer. 1999 Sep; 81(1):75-9.
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Long-term results of autologous marrow transplantation for relapsed or refractory male or female germ cell tumors. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1998 Mar; 21(6):569-76.
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Quantification of additional short arms of chromosome 12 in germ cell tumours using the polymerase chain reaction. Eur J Cancer. 1997 Aug; 33(9):1488-94.