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Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 1981;10(1): 323-328.
A Case of Suprasellar Germinoma with Intrasellar Extension and Brain Stem Involvement.
Kyu Chang Wang, Young Cho Koh, Hyun Jip Kim, Bo Sung Sim, Je G Chi
1Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
ABSTRACT
Suprasellar germinomas have been defined as a distinct group from the clinical as well as therapeutic points of view. Germinomas of such location constitute less than a third of the total intracranial tumors of similar nature. The tumor has a tendency of direct infiltrative growth and distant drop metastasis through the cerebrospinal fluid pathway. Occasionally it metastasizes outside central nervous system. We experienced a case of suprasellar germinoma with intrasellar extension and brain stem involvement in a 25 year old man, which could be diagnosed with CT scan before autopsy.
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