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Central Nervous System Immature Teratoma
A variant of teratoma composed of incompletely differentiated components resembling fetal tissues. Even if the immature component is only a minor element of an otherwise differentiated teratoma, the tumor is still classified as immature. (NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
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