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Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor
Disease definition
A rare, aggressive, malignant, neoplastic disease characterized by a usually ill-defined, solid, multilobulated mass, frequently having necrosis, located on any site of the body (except the central nervous system), composed of small, round, poorly differentiated cells, with or without Homer-Wright rosettes, showing varying degrees of neuroectodermal differentiation. Manifestations are variable depending on location, with osteolytic destruction being common when arising from bone.
ORPHA:370348
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- PPNET
- Peripheral PNET
- Peripheral neuroepithelioma
- Prevalence: Unknown
- Inheritance: Not applicable
- Age of onset: Adult, Childhood, Adolescent
- ICD-10: C71.9
- OMIM: 612219
- UMLS: C0684337
- MeSH: D018241
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2019) Español (2019) Français (2019) Italiano (2019) Nederlands (2019)
Detailed information
General public
- Article for general public
- English (2017) - PDQ Cancer Inf Sum
Guidelines
- Clinical practice guidelines
- English (2018) - Ann Oncol
- English (2018) - Ann Oncol
- English (2021) - Ann Oncol
- English (2021) - Ann Oncol
Disease review articles
- Review article
- Deutsch (2011) - Onkopedia


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