Growing Teratoma Syndrome in a Patient with a Non-germinomatous Germ Cell Tumor in the Neurohypophysis: Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-37

  Yagi, Kenji ^a   Kageji, Teruyoshi ^a   Nagahiro, Shinji ^a   Horiguchi, Hidehisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cell tumor; Growing teratoma syndrome; Neurohypophyseal tumor; Suprasellar tumor; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GROWING TERATOMA SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONGERMINOMATOUS GERM CELL TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; POLYDIPSIA; POLYURIA; REOPERATION; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TERATOMA; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; TERATOMA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1042302024     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.33     Document Type: Article

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