title: Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of spinal dissemination of intracranial germ cell tumor: a case report.
abstract: The authors report a case of multiple spinal dissemination originating from an intracranial germ cell tumor. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging is a useful and noninvasive study for evaluating multiple dissemination and the effects of therapy, whereas myelography is invasive and demonstrates the lesion as a negative, indirect shadow defect. The usefulness and some problems of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of spinal tumor are discussed.
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirakuni
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authors.lastname: Tamaki
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authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
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authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D011859:Radiography; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*