Pineal region
A Case of Nongerminomatous Germ Cell Tumor of the Pineal Region: Risks and Advantages of Biopsy by Endoscopic Approach
... the pineal region may vary from benign to malignant lesions and are classified into four categories: GCT, pineal cell tumors (such as pineocytoma, pinealoblastoma), glial cell tumors, and miscellanea ...
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Isolated pineal region metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma with obstructive hydrocephalus: a case report
... the pineal region is small cell carcinoma [2,3], although other histological types, including squamous cell carcinoma [4] and adenocarcinoma [5,6] have also been ...the pineal region seems to ...
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Use of 3D computed tomography angiography for planning the surgical removal of pineal region meningiomas using Poppen's approach: a report of ten cases and a literature review
... After the induction of general anesthesia, lumbar drai- nage was performed and the three-way tap was kept in the closed position. Patients were positioned laterally and a bone window with a size of approximately 9 × 7 cm ...
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Primary glioblastoma in the pineal region: a case report and review of the literature
... severe bleeding nature. The pathologic findings revealed a typical glioblastoma consisting of frequent mitotic fig- ures, a high proliferation index, microvascular prolifera- tion with endothelial cell hyperplasia, and ...
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Physiologic Pineal Region, Choroid Plexus, and Dural Calcifications in the First Decade of Life
... This Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act– com- pliant retrospective study was performed after institutional re- view board approval. The imaging database at a single academic children’s hospital was ...
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INTRACRANIAL GERM CELL TUMOR IN THE PINEAL REGION: A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
... in pineal region or posterior third ventricular ...with pineal region tumors usually have a shorter history of symptoms, with weeks to months of ...
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Combined endoscopic third ventriculostomy and tumor biopsy in the management of pineal region tumors, safety considerations
... Fig. 2 Shows the two burr-holes method. a Preoperative sagittal T1-weighted image with contrast. The red line represents the pathway for ETV, and the green line represents the pathway for tumor biopsy. The lines are more ...
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Anatomy and surgery of pure neuroendoscopic infratentorial supracerebellar approach for resection of pineal region tumor
... with pineal region tumors were retrospectively ana- lyzed and summarized between June 2017 and December 2017 in the first affiliated hospital of Fujian medical uni- versity (Table ...
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Case Report Primary intracranial malignant ectomesenchymoma in pineal region: a rare case report and review of literature
... Malignant ectomesenchymoma (MEM) was identified as a new kind of soft tissue neo- plasms in 1977, as reported by Karcioglu [1]. To data more than 50 cases have been published in the literature and only 8 cases with con- ...
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Two cases of pineal region meningiomas derived from arachnoid membrane over the vein of Galen without dural attachment
... trunk and occasionally by the medial and posterior chor- oidal arteries and branches of the posterior cerebral artery [5]. On the other hand, velum interpositum meningiomas are extremely rare and have been described as ...
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Papillary tumor of pineal region: Case reports
... A 48-years-old female presented with impaired gaze and headache since two months. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an enhancing solid cystic mass in the posterior third ventricle and pineal region ...
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Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for pineal region tumors: a study of 147 cases
... of pineal region tumors [6, ...for pineal region tumors. The most successful GKRS treatment of pineal region tumors has been with benign or ...
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Papillary tumour of the pineal region: a case report
... Little information exists regarding the biologic behav- ior, natural course, and optimal treatment for these pa- tients. It is believed that these tumors behave in a similar way to ependymomas and tumors of the choroid ...
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Magnetic resonance imaging of pineal region tumours
... can be separated into two types: pure germinoma and germinoma with syncytiotrophoblastic cells, which are as- sociated with higher recurrence, decreased survival rate and elevated CSF levels of human chorionic ...
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Pineal Region Tumors of Childhood
... Specific tumors diagnosed included pineal parenchymal tumors (pineoblastomas, pineocytomas) in eight patients (32%); germ cell tumors (embryonal cell carcinomas, teratomas, germinomas) i[r] ...
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CT of Pineal Region Tumors
... A prominently calcified pineal gland engulfed by tumor tissue, a characteristic feature of germinomas in our series, was not seen in any other pineal tumors.. Germinomas are histological[r] ...
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Pineal Region Tumors: Computed Tomographic Pathologic Spectrum
... Well marginated posterior third ventricu lar mass with densely calcified rim, contrast-enhancing center; moderate hydrocephalus Multicystic lobulated, irregu lar third ventricular tumor [r] ...
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Low-grade oligodendroglioma of the pineal gland: a case report and review of the literature
... the pineal region reportedly result from malignant transformation of the pineal parenchymal cells, the surrounding stro- mal or so called “ interstitial ” cells or the cells compris- ing the adjacent ...
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Germinoma originating in the basal ganglia and thalamus: MR and CT evaluation
... Calcification seen in cases with pineal region germinoma is now believed to be limited to the normal pineal gland possibly engulfed by the tumor, although abnormal intratumoral calcifica[r] ...
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Case Report Intracranial multiple germ cell tumors: a case report and review of literature
... the pineal, sellar region, cor- pus callosum, fourth ventricle, anterior horns of bilateral lateral ventricles and surrounding cerebral ...in pineal region ...
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