Somatic yolk sac differentiation in tumors of the gynecologic tract: A report of two cases and review of the literature.

Gynecol Oncol Rep

Alberta Precision Laboratories and Alberta Health Services, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Canada.

Published: December 2022

•Somatic yolk sac tumor differentiation associated with malignant neoplasms is uncommon and associated with poor outcome.•In the gynecologic tract, somatic yolk sac differentiation most often arises in postmenopausal patients.•Somatic yolk sac differentiation shares driver mutations with and likely differentiates from the corresponding carcinoma.•This is the first report of somatic yolk sac differentiation in the gynecologic tract from a non-epithelial malignancy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9772801PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2022.101119DOI Listing

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