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An Unusual Enteric Yolk Sac Tumor: First Report of an Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor Associated With a Germline Pathogenic Variant in DICER1
11 Aug 2021
Abstract excerpt
A variety of unusual tumors are associated with both germline and somatic DICER1 pathogenic variants (PVs), including, in the female genital tract, embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma at various sites and ovarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor. There have been occasional reported cases of ovarian germ cell tumors [mainly yolk sac tumor (YST)] harboring DICER1 PVs but, as far as we are aware, none of these has been proven to...
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