Do infantile testicular germ cell tumors histogenetically develop from conventional intratubular germ cell neoplasia?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-3

  Gunia, Sven ^a   Dieckmann, Klaus Peter ^b   Koch, Stefan ^a   May, Matthias ^c  

^a Helios Klinik   (Germany)

^b Division of Urology   (Germany)

^c St Elisabeth Clinic Straubing   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CANCER MORPHOLOGY; EDITORIAL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRATUBULAR GERM CELL NEOPLASIA; LYSOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOCYTE;

HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78650678867     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2010.04.009     Document Type: Editorial

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