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medulloepithelioma

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medulloepithelioma /me·dul·lo·epi·the·li·o·ma/ (-ep″ĭ-the-le-o´mah) a rare type of neuroepithelial tumor, usually in the brain or retina, composed of primitive neuroepithelial cells lining the tubular spaces.
med·ul·lo·ep·i·the·li·o·ma (mdl--p-thl-m, m-dl-)
n.
1. See ependymoma.
2. Malignant ciliary epithelioma.

medulloepithelioma.
medulloepithelioma
a brain tumor composed of primitive neuroepithelial cells lining the tubular spaces.

medulloepithelioma
A highly malignant undifferentiated primitive neuroepithelial tumor of children that may contain bone, cartilage, skeletal muscle; it tends to metastasize extracranially; MEs of the eye arise in the ciliary epithelium, and are termed diktyomas


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