Stereotactic radiosurgery for CNS nongerminomatous germ cell tumors: Report of four cases

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 329-333

  Hasegawa, Toshinori ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,b   Hadjipanayis, Constantinos G ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ cell tumors; Nongerminomatous germ cell tumors; Pineal region tumors; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PINEALOMA; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 0038545598     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070417     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Jennings MT, Gelman R, Hochberg F: Intracranial germ-cell tumors: Natural history and pathogenesis. J Neurosurg 1985;63:155-167.
2. Buckner JC, Peethambaram PP, Smithson WA, Groover RV, Schomberg PJ, Kimmel DW, Raffel C, O'Fallon JR, Neglia J, Shaw EG: Phase II trial of primary chemotherapy followed by reduced-dose radiation for CNS germ cell tumors. J Clin Oncol 1999;17:933-940.
3. Dattoli MJ, Newall J: Radiation therapy for intracranial germinoma: The case for limited volume treatment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1990;19:429-433.
4. Balmaceda C, Heller G, Rosenblum M, Diez B, Villablanca JG, Kellie S, Maher P, Vlamis V, Walker RW, Leibel S, Finlay JL: Chemotherapy without irradiation - a novel approach for newly diagnosed CNS germ cell tumors: Results of an international cooperative trial. The First International Central Nervous System Germ Cell Tumor Study. J Clin Oncol 1996;14:2908-2915.
5. Kida Y, Kobayashi T, Yoshida J, Kato K, Kageyama N: Chemotherapy with cisplatin for AFP-secreting germ-cell tumors of the central nervous system. J Neurosurg 1986;65:470-475.
6. Matsutani M, Sano K, Takakura K, Fujimaki T, Nakamura O, Funata N, Seto T: Primary intracranial germ cell tumors: A clinical analysis of 153 histologically verified cases. J Neurosurg 1997;86:446-455.
7. Matsutani M, Sano K, Takakura K, Fujimaki T, Nakamura O: Combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiation therapy for intracranial germ cell tumors. Childs Nerv Syst 1998;14:59-62.
8. Zissiadis Y, Dutton S, Kieran M, Goumnerova L, Scott M, Kody HM, Tarbell NJ: Stereotactic radiosurgery for pediatric intracranial germ cell tumors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2001;51:108-112.
9. Chao CK, Lee ST, Lin FJ, Tang SG, Leung WM: A multiple analysis of prognostic factors in management of pineal tumor. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1993;27:1185-1191.
10. Friedman JA, Lynch JJ, Buckner JC, Scheithauer BW, Raffel C: Management of malignant pineal germ cell tumors with residual mature teratoma. Neurosurgery 2001;48:518-523.
11. Herrmann HD, Westphal M, Winkler K, Rudolf WL, Schulte FJ: Treatment of nongerminomatous germ-cell tumors of the pineal region. Neurosurgery 1994;34:524-529.
12. Schild SE, Scheithauer BW, Haddock MG, Wong WW, Lyons MK, Marks LB, Norman MG, Burger PC: Histologically confirmed pineal tumors and other germ cell tumors of the brain. Cancer 1996;78:2564-2571.