Hypothesis: when is a seminoma not a seminoma?

نویسندگان

  • D Raghavan
  • E Heyderman
  • P Monaghan
  • J Gibbs
  • E Ruoslahti
  • M J Peckham
  • A M Neville
چکیده

A xenograft line, HX 53, has been established in immune-suppressed mice from a specimen of a lymph node metastasis in a patient with a histological diagnosis of seminoma but with markedly raised circulating levels of alpha-fetoprotein. Histological, immunocytochemical, and ultrastructural studies of this xenograft line have suggested that a solid variant of yolk sac carcinoma may exist, which morphologically resembles seminoma, or that a continuum of differentiation exists between seminoma and yolk sac carcinoma.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical pathology

دوره 34 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1981