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Teilum (1959) first drew attention to the histological features of a tumour originally described by Schiller in 1939 as mesonephroma, which had a close structural resemblance to the rat placenta. He thought this structural display was an attempt at extra-embryonic differentiation; the tumour was therefore of germ cell origin. He designated the tumour as an endodermal sinus tumour.
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Barua, R. (1990). Germ Cell Tumour. In: Tumours of the Female Lower Genital Tract. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74828-8_14
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