Intracranial germ cell tumor mimicking anorexia nervosa.
A previously healthy seventeen-year-old boy developed loss of weight, poor appetite, and aversion to food. Physical examination being normal, anorexia nervosa was suspected. Thirteen months later a CT scan revealed a mass in the third ventricle histologically proven to be a malignant teratoma. To our knowledge anorexia nervosa is only extremely rarely the presenting feature of intracranial germ cell tumors.
Universitätsklinik für Neurologie, Innsbruck.
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Berek
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Aichner
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Schmutzhard
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Kofler
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Langmayr
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Gerstenbrand
D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000209:etiology*; D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D013724:Teratoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed