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Figure 3b-24: Histology of germinoma of the pituitary gland. Pituitary germinomas share their morphological phenotype with gonadal seminomas. They consist of large anaplastic cells accompanied by a dense lymphocytic infiltrate (left). The tumour cells strongly express c-kit, PLAP (right) and Oct3/4 transcription factors.