Mediastinal germ cell tumors are tumors that derive from germ cell rest remnants in the mediastinum.[1] Germ cell tumors most commonly occur in the gonad but occasionally elsewhere.[2]
Germcelltumor (GCT) is a neoplasm derived from the primordial germcells. Germ-celltumors can be cancerous or benign. Germcells normally occur inside...
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A mediastinaltumor is a tumor in the mediastinum, the cavity that separates the lungs from the rest of the chest. It contains the heart, esophagus, trachea...
examples include germcelltumors and lymphomas. Teratomas are a class of germcelltumors that arise in the chest due to failure of germcell migration during...
An extracranial germcelltumor (EGCT) occurs in the abnormal growth of germcells in the gonads (testes or ovaries) and the areas other than the brain...
Cricket World Cup. Singh was successfully treated for a mediastinalgermcelltumor (mediastinal seminoma). Returning to cricket after one year, Singh founded...
thrombocytosis, primary myelofibrosis, or mediastinalgermcelltumor. AMKL associated with mediastinalgermcelltumors typically occurs in younger adults,...
testicular torsion, or hydrops fetalis. They are a type of germcelltumor (a tumor that begins in the cells that give rise to sperm or eggs). They are divided...
divided into germcelltumors and non–germcelltumors. Germcelltumors are further categorized as either seminomas or nonseminomatous tumors. Other malignant...
of the fetus. Sacrococcygeal teratomas are the most common type of germcelltumors (both benign and malignant) diagnosed in neonates, infants, and children...
disorders such as meningitis, intracranial thrombophlebitis, and mediastinalgermcelltumors. c. 1150 – Averroes suggested the existence of Parkinson's disease...
had been playing with a large, malignant tumor in his chest due to undiagnosed mediastinalgermcelltumors. On December 23, 2000, Turk died from testicular...
growth descended from a single mutated cell (monoclonality), as would typically define a benign neoplasm/tumor. Despite this, many hamartomas are found...
Polyembryoma is a rare, very aggressive form of germcelltumor usually found in the ovaries. Polyembryoma has features of both yolk sac tumour and undifferentiated...
cancer frequently metastasizes to the lung. Prostate cancer, germcell cancer and renal cell carcinoma may also metastasize to the lung. Treatment of respiratory...
histologically as tumors containing primitive epithelioid cells (i.e. derived from activated macrophages and resembling epithelial cells) admixed with foci...
is a benign fibroblastic tumor (i.e. a tumor containing fibroblasts, the most common cell type in connective tissue). GF tumors typically develop in the...
eye) Osteosarcoma (3%, bone cancer) Ewing sarcoma (1%, many sites) Germcelltumors (5%, many sites) Pleuropulmonary blastoma (lung or pleural cavity)...
normal cells and tumorcells in humans. The "normal" CpG methylation profile is often inverted in cells that become tumorigenic. In normal cells, CpG islands...
mediators of LAM cell viability and survival. LAM cells behave, in many ways, like metastatic tumorcells. LAM cells appear to arise from an extrapulmonary source...
thymus gland, demonstration of the direct morphological continuity of the germcells of vertebrate animals" "Work on internal medicine, introduction of nutritional...
differentiation (>1 cell type) Stage of disease Ill health Spread (diffuse) "Go look for the adenoma please": Tropic hormones affected by growth tumor are: GnRH...
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