Management of central nervous system germinoma: proposal for a modern strategy [0.03%]
中枢神经系统生殖细胞瘤的管理：现代策略建议
Yuta Shibamoto
Yuta Shibamoto
With the development of diagnostic, radiologic, and therapeutic modalities, strategies for management of central nervous system (CNS) germinoma are changing gradually. The author advocates that typical germinomas can be diagnosed based on t...
Yoshimasa Mori,Tatsuya Kobayashi,Toshinori Hasegawa et al.
Yoshimasa Mori et al.
Radiosurgery is increasingly being used to treat pineal region tumors, either as an additional therapy after conventional treatments or as a primary treatment. We report our experience with Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for the treatment ...
Case Reports
Progress in neurological surgery. 2009:23:106-118. DOI:10.1159/000210057 2009
Hidefumi Aoyama
Hidefumi Aoyama
Although radiation therapy (RT) is essential to the management of intracranial germ cell tumors, the ideal radiation dose and field remain controversial. For the treatment of germinoma, whole central nervous system radiation, which was once...
Yutaka Sawamura
Yutaka Sawamura
The histopathological entity 'germ cell tumor' (GCT) encompasses a number of histological subtypes. Pineal GCTs can be grossly divided into three categories: those with a good, intermediate, and poor prognostic. Germinoma and mature teratom...
Pineal germ cell tumors [0.03%]
松果体生殖细胞肿瘤
Masao Matsutani
Masao Matsutani
Intracranial germ cell tumors (GCTs), especially pineal tumors have attracted the special attention of neuropathologists and neurosurgeons because of their unique growth sites, characteristic subtypes with different histology, and high inci...
Kazufumi Sato,Hiroaki Takeuchi,Toshihiko Kubota
Kazufumi Sato
Intra cranial germ cell tumors (GCTs) usually arise in midline structures, including the pineal or suprasellar regions of children and young adults. The classification of GCTs includes germinoma, teratoma, yolk sac tumor, embryonal carcinom...
Role of stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of pineal parenchymal tumors [0.03%]
立体放射外科手术在松果体实质肿瘤治疗中的作用
Hideyuki Kano,Ajay Niranjan,Douglas Kondziolka et al.
Hideyuki Kano et al.
We evaluated 20 pineal parenchymal tumor patients who underwent radiosurgery at our institution over a 20-year period. Thirteen patients had pineocytoma, 5 patients had pineoblastoma and 2 patients had mixed pineal parenchymal tumors. The m...
Occipital transtentorial approach and combined treatments for pineal parenchymal tumors [0.03%]
枕下经小脑天幕入路及松果体区胶质瘤的综合治疗策略
Itaru Tsumanuma,Ryuichi Tanaka,Yukihiko Fujii
Itaru Tsumanuma
The deep-seated location of pineal parenchymal tumors (PPTs) and their associations with critical structures make their surgical resection technically challenging; further, the rarity of PPTs and repeated changes in their histopathological ...
Kazufumi Sato,Toshihiko Kubota
Kazufumi Sato
Pinea l parenchymal tumors (PPTs) are neuroepithelial tumors that arise from pineocytes or their precursors. According to the currently revised WHO classification of tumors of the central nervous system, PPTs are subdivided into well-differ...
Statistical analysis of pineal tumors based on the data of Brain Tumor Registry of Japan [0.03%]
基于日本脑肿瘤登记局数据的松果体肿瘤统计分析研究
Soichiro Shibui,Kazuhiro Nomura
Soichiro Shibui
In this study, we present statistical analyses of pineal tumors based on the data from Brain Tumor Registry of Japan. The most frequent tumor in the pineal region was germinoma, and it accounted for 49.2% of all pineal tumors; it was follow...