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Teratoma

"Teratoma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A true neoplasm composed of a number of different types of tissue, none of which is native to the area in which it occurs. It is composed of tissues that are derived from three germinal layers, the endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. They are classified histologically as mature (benign) or immature (malignant). (From DeVita Jr et al., Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 3d ed, p1642)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Teratoma" by people in this website by year, and whether "Teratoma" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2013
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