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Fetal Cerebellar Tissue Associated with a Primitive Neuro-epithelial Tumor in an Ovarian Teratoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Paul J. Boor
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
William C. Schoene*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
*
Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A. 02115
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This is a single case report of an ovarian teratoma. It is a unique case of a primitive neuroepithelial tumor with many similarities to a medulloblastoma arising in an ovarian teratoma, and the second report of fetal cerebellum occurring in a teratoma of the ovary.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1975

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