Intramedullary spinal cord germinoma: case report

Matsuoka, Shirou; Itoh, Masaharu; Shinonome, Toshiaki; Tanimura, Akira

doi:10.1016/0090-3019(91)90262-8

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“…9,17,18 A primary location of germ cell tumors in the spine is very rare and so far has been described in 15 other cases, mostly arising in the dorsolumbar tract; in 12 of these cases, the patients were Japanese. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][11][12][13]15,[19][20][21] Of these cases, only five had a ␤-HCG-secreting component like the one that we have described; 15,20,21 our case is only the second one reported in the literature in which the patient is not Asian. 3 The two patients reported on by Hisa, 5 de Monléon, 3 and their colleagues were young children who presented at diagnosis with features typical of precocious puberty and required medical attention before neurological symptoms appeared.…”

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Unusual primary secreting germ cell tumor of the spine

Massimino

Gandola

Spreafico

et al. 2006

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✓ The authors describe a young man with a rare primary spinal germ cell tumor that secreted β–human chorionic gonadotropin. The tumor was resected, and six courses of adjuvant chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin, bleomycin and etoposide were administered together with irradiation to the craniospinal area. An additional dose of radiation was delivered to the tumor site after the first four chemotherapy sessions. The patient was well without any neurological deficit or iatrogenic sequela 33 months after diagnosis. The occurrence of this rare tumor located primarily in the spine warrants attention in pathological studies of spinal tumors in young patients.

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Unusual primary secreting germ cell tumor of the spine

Massimino

Gandola

Spreafico

et al. 2006

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“…There were 13 male and 10 female patients with ages ranging from 5 to 43 years (mean age: 25 years). The tumors predisposed to arise from the lower thoracic and lumbar spinal region 1–23 . Only one case occurred in the middle portion of cervical spinal cord 15 .…”

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MR Imaging of Primary Spinal Germinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Chen

Chou

et al. 2009

Journal of Neuroimaging

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Germinomas in the central nervous system (CNS) are uncommon tumors and occur usually in the pineal or suprasellar regions. Primary spinal germinoma is extremely rare. Here we reported a rare case of an extramedullary germinoma in a young adult who presented with progressive paraparesis and retention of stool and urine. The MR image features with their differential diagnoses were discussed along with literature review of all previously reported 22 cases.

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“…The 24 previously reported cases of PISCG included 17 cases from East Asia, 16 from Japan and 1 from China (Table 1), 2,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][13][14][15][17][18][19][20][21][25][26][27][28][29] a pattern similar to the distribution of primary intracranial GCT. The patients were two children and young adults, aged from 5 to 43 years.…”

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