Mediastinal germ cell tumors: many questions and perhaps an answer
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Hematologic disorders associated with primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumors.
BACKGROUND The association between primary germ cell tumors of the mediastinum (the space between the lung pleura that contains the heart and other chest viscera) and hematologic malignancies has been described by retrospective analysis of patients treated at individual clinical centers. To better characterize the risk of hematologic disorders in patients with extragonadal germ cell tumors and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0021-9738,1558-8238
DOI: 10.1172/jci143884