Germinoma

"Germinoma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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)

Descriptor ID	D018237
MeSH Number(s)	C04.557.465.330
Concept/Terms	Germinoma Germinoma Germinomas

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Diseases [C]
Neoplasms [C04]
Neoplasms by Histologic Type [C04.557]
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal [C04.557.465]
Germinoma [C04.557.465.330]

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