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Hematopoietic precursor cells within the yolk sac tumor component are the source of secondary hematopoietic malignancies in patients with mediastinal germ cell tumors
1 Mar 1994
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BACKGROUND: Patients with mediastinal germ cell tumors (MGCT) have a high incidence of hematologic malignancies unrelated to cytotoxic chemotherapy. It has been suggested that these leukemic conditions originate from a MGCT progenitor cell capable of undergoing non-germ cell (hematopoietic) differentiation. METHODS: To assess this hypothesis, histologic material from six patients with MGCTs associated with...
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