ORPHA:252006
Yolk sac tumor of central nervous system
Also known as: Endodermal sinus tumor of CNS · Endodermal sinus tumor of central nervous system · Intracranial endodermal sinus tumor · Intracranial yolk sac tumor · Yolk sac tumor of CNS
Publications
49
32th percentile
Trials
6
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
244
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
2/6
Stages with a signal
Cross-references
Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.
- MONDO:0016739
- UMLS:C1337040
- NCIT:C7011
Additional Mondo synonyms (22)
CNS yolk Sac tumor · CNS yolk Sac tumour · central nervous system yolk Sac tumor · central nervous system yolk Sac tumour · endodermal sinus tumor of CNS · endodermal sinus tumor of central nervous system · endodermal sinus tumour of CNS · endodermal sinus tumour of central nervous system · intracranial endodermal sinus tumor · intracranial endodermal sinus tumour · intracranial yolk sac tumor · intracranial yolk sac tumour · yolk Sac tumor of CNS · yolk Sac tumor of central nervous system · yolk Sac tumor of the CNS · yolk Sac tumor of the central nervous system · yolk Sac tumour of CNS · yolk Sac tumour of central nervous system · yolk Sac tumour of the CNS · yolk Sac tumour of the central nervous system · yolk sac tumor of CNS · yolk sac tumour of CNS
Research stages
Trial readiness signals
Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”
2/6 stages with a signal
An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
49 matched papers (14 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO
- Animal modelNot checked
Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance
- Orphan designationNot checked
FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet
- Interventional trialPresent
6 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov
Biology
Genes and phenotypes
Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
Not enriched in this build.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
49
49 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.
49 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).
14 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 32th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 49 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
244
Distinct author names in 49 sampled papers — named people below.
Who's working on it?
People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.
- 01Chen X2 papers · 2026
Department of Radiology, The Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250033, P.R. China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Chen Y2 papers · 2024
From the Department of Radiology, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Fujii M2 papers · 2013Papers in Europe PMC
- 04Ideguchi M2 papers · 2013Papers in Europe PMC
- 05Li C2 papers · 2021
Department of Radiation Oncology, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Li L2 papers · 2026
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Liu Q2 papers · 2024
Department of Radiology, Provincial Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250021, P.R. China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Nomura S2 papers · 2013Papers in Europe PMC
- 09Suzuki M2 papers · 2013Papers in Europe PMC
- 10Takei Y2 papers · 1981Papers in Europe PMC
Clinical research
Is a treatment being tested?
6
interventional trials for this specific condition
6 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; none in our sample are currently recruiting.
Data as of 27 July 2026
6 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 89th percentile).
high confidence · 89th percentile (trials denominator)
Recruiting interventional trials
From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
6 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.
No currently recruiting studies in the matched set. Open the same search on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Where to find support
We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.
"Yolk sac tumor of central nervous system" OR "Yolk sac tumor of the central nervous system" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of CNS" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of the CNS" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of central nervous system" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of the central nervous system" OR "Intracranial endodermal sinus tumor" OR "Intracranial yolk sac tumor" OR "Yolk sac tumor of CNS" OR "Yolk sac tumor of the CNS" OR "CNS yolk Sac tumor" OR "CNS yolk Sac tumour" OR "central nervous system yolk Sac tumor" OR "central nervous system yolk Sac tumour" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of CNS" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of the CNS" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of central nervous system" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of the central nervous system" OR "intracranial endodermal sinus tumour" OR "intracranial yolk sac tumour" OR "yolk Sac tumour of CNS" OR "yolk Sac tumour of the CNS" OR "yolk Sac tumour of central nervous system" OR "yolk Sac tumour of the central nervous system"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Yolk sac tumor of central nervous system" OR "Yolk sac tumor of the central nervous system" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of CNS" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of the CNS" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of central nervous system" OR "Endodermal sinus tumor of the central nervous system" OR "Intracranial endodermal sinus tumor" OR "Intracranial yolk sac tumor" OR "Yolk sac tumor of CNS" OR "Yolk sac tumor of the CNS" OR "CNS yolk Sac tumor" OR "CNS yolk Sac tumour" OR "central nervous system yolk Sac tumor" OR "central nervous system yolk Sac tumour" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of CNS" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of the CNS" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of central nervous system" OR "endodermal sinus tumour of the central nervous system" OR "intracranial endodermal sinus tumour" OR "intracranial yolk sac tumour" OR "yolk Sac tumour of CNS" OR "yolk Sac tumour of the CNS" OR "yolk Sac tumour of central nervous system" OR "yolk Sac tumour of the central nervous system"
Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).
Study-type breakdown: 6 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-27T10:57:14.548Z