Prognostic features of primary and metastatic testis germ-cell tumors.
Careful pathologic analysis of a germ-cell tumor provides important prognostic data. The author describes the histopathologic features of the various types of germ-cell tumors that have prognostic implications and discusses the pitfalls in the sampling and examination of tissue specimens.
Levin
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Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio.
D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D011379:Prognosis; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology