Metachronous neurohypophyseal germinoma occurring 8 years after total resection of pineal mature teratoma

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-208

  Ikeda, Jun ^a   Sawamura, Yutaka ^a   Kato, Tsutomu ^a   Abe, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cell tumor; Germinoma; Mature teratoma; Neurohypophysis; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE COURSE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TERATOMA;

EID: 0032006934     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00158-4     Document Type: Article

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