Proposal for a reappraisal of the current classification of so‐called “somatic‐type” malignancies arising in germ cell tumours

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So-called “somatic-type” malignancies occur in ~7% of germ cell tumours (GCTs), mostly, but not exclusively, after chemotherapy. They are defined as a tumour component with morphologic features similar to those of a true somatic neoplasm spanning at least one low-magnification field (5 mm), a cutoff defined by consensus and somewhat arbitrary, since it is not based on correlation with clinical outcome data. In...

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