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embryonic rest

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embryonic rest,
a portion of embryonic tissue that remains in the adult organism. Also called epithelial rest, fetal rest.


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[8] There are four proposed etiologic factors: (1) a carcinoma (usually squamous) with a reactive mesenchymal proliferation (pseudosarcoma), (2) a so-called collision tumor, in which carcinoma and sarcoma arise simultaneously in a specific anatomic site, (3) a malignancy arising in an embryonic rest of epithelial and mesenchymal tissues, and (4) a divergent differentiation of a carcinoma into sarcomatous components, or sarcomatoid carcinoma.
 
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