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**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gonadoblastoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg Gonadoblastoma - intermed. mag. (WC)]. | **[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gonadoblastoma_-_intermed_mag.jpg Gonadoblastoma - intermed. mag. (WC)]. | ||
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gonadoblastoma_-_b_-_high_mag.jpg Gonadoblastoma - high mag. (WC)]. | **[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gonadoblastoma_-_b_-_high_mag.jpg Gonadoblastoma - high mag. (WC)]. | ||
==Polyembryoma== | |||
===General=== | |||
*Poor prognosis. | |||
*Almost never in pure form, i.e. usu. a component of a mixed germ cell tumour.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Young | first1 = RH. | title = Testicular tumors--some new and a few perennial problems. | journal = Arch Pathol Lab Med | volume = 132 | issue = 4 | pages = 548-64 | month = Apr | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1043/1543-2165(2008)132[548:TTNAAF]2.0.CO;2 | PMID = 18384207 }}</ref> | |||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | |||
*Embryo like-structure: | |||
**Disc shaped structure - one side endoderm, other side ectoderm. | |||
Image: | |||
*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?case=37&n=6 Polyembryoma - low mag. (webpathology.com)]. | |||
*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?n=7&Case=37 Polyembryoma - high mag. (webpathology.com)]. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||