title: [Encephalographic findings in tumors of the pineal region (author's transl)].
abstract: 6 encephalograms were selected from a series of 31 patients with clinical and radiological signs of a tumor in the pineal region, in order to obtain differential diagnostic criteria concerning space occupying lesions of this area. Neuroradiologically, it is possible only in a very few cases to decide whether a tumor had arisen from the pineal gland or from adjacent structures of the midbrain. At the time of the radiological examination usually the tumor has reached a size that an encephalographic distinction between pineal gland and quadrigeminal plate cannot be made. Computerized axial tomography can contribute essentially to solve this problem as shown by one example.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008527:Medulloblastoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010870:Pineal Gland; D010871:Pinealoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011011:Pneumoencephalography; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray
vernacular_title: Enzephalographische Befunde bei Tumoren der Pinealisregion