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Mediastinal Germ Cell Tumor and Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia With Co-occurring KRAS Mutation and Complex Cytogenetics.
Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society - 1 Jan 2000
Amra Nasir, Zarate Luis Velasquez, Punia Jyotinder N, Mahajan Priya, Stevens Alexandra M, Roy Angshumoy, Curry Choladda V, Cortes-Santiago Nahir, Fisher Kevin E
Abstract excerpt
Young males have a unique but rare predilection to develop mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCTs) and concomitant acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL). Common cytogenetic and molecular abnormalities such as isochromosome 12p and somatic Tumor Protein P53(TP53) and Phosphatase And Tensin Homolog (PTEN) mutations have been reported in the presumed mutual neoplastic clones of origin. We report the...
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