malignant germ cell tumor
MONDO:0006290Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names malignant germ cell tumor yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A gonadal or extragonadal malignant neoplasm that arises from germ cells. Representative examples include embryonal carcinoma, yolk sac tumor, and seminoma.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0006290), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (13)
- dysgerminoma
- extragonadal germ cell cancer
- germinoma
- malignant childhood germ cell neoplasm
- malignant germ cell tumor of cervix uteri
- malignant germ cell tumor of corpus uteri
- malignant germ cell tumor of ovary
- malignant teratoma
- malignant testicular germ cell tumor
- mixed germ cell tumor
- pulmonary artery choriocarcinoma
- seminoma
- vaginal germ cell malignant tumor
Other names
10 names
Resolves to: malignant germ cell tumor
- Also called
- cancer of germ cellgerm cell cancergerm cell tumor, malignantmalignant germ cell neoplasmmalignant neoplasm of germ cellmalignant neoplasm of the germ cellmalignant tumor of germ cellmalignant tumor of the germ cellmalignant tumour of germ cellmalignant tumour of the germ cell