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- juvenile 5%
• Unilateral , encapsulated, solid mass with
cystic formation
Microscopic :
Individual cell small, cuboidal to polygonal.
Growth in anastomosing cord, shects or strand.
In the sheets punctuated small folicel structure
with acidofilic material in the central ( call exner bodies)
Clinical important : tumor cell elaborate estrogen
In pre pubertal girl ( juvenile GCT) may produce iso sexual
pseudo precoxcity
Adult GCT : May caused hiperplasia endometrium and
proliferative breast disease.
Classification of germ cell tumors of the ovarium
MATURE TERATOMA
IMMATURE TERATOMA