OP03.04: Imaging in gynecological disease: ultrasound features of malignant yolk sac tumours (endodermal sinus tumours)
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Radiology of primary intracranial yolk-sac (endodermal sinus) tumors.
Most primary intracranial germ-cell tumors are germinomas and teratomas. Less frequent are embryonal carcinomas, choriocarcinomas, and yolk-sac (endodermal sinus) tumors in various admixtures and degrees of purity. Teilum [1] first used the term endodermal sinus tumor in 1959 to describe those tumors (whether ovarian, testicular, or extragonadal) that originate in primitive germ cells of extrae...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0960-7692,1469-0705
DOI: 10.1002/uog.20671