Diagnosis of lesions in the third ventricle.
The precise diagnosis of lesions occupying the third ventricle requires both clinical and radiological examinations. Laboratory tests may provide important additional information in some cases. The specific diagnosis of a third ventricle tumor, however, cannot be established without biopsy except in very rare cases. The diagnostic and differential diagnostic problems are illustrated by some examples and discussed.
D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004407:Dysgerminoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D010870:Pineal Gland; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed