"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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| 1996 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Germinoma" by people in Profiles.
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Nerve sparing post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for advanced testicular cancer. J Urol. 1996 Nov; 156(5):1656-8.
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Post-chemotherapy resection of nonseminomatous germ cell testicular tumors metastatic to the mediastinum. J Urol. 1996 Oct; 156(4):1345-8.
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Continuing increase in incidence of germ-cell testis cancer in young adults: experience from Connecticut, USA, 1935-1992. Int J Cancer. 1996 Mar 15; 65(6):723-9.