Spinal metastasis from occult intracranial germinoma mimicking primary intramedullary tumour.
We report a patient who initially presented with an intramedullary spinal tumour and developed an intracranial germinoma 3.5 years later. The original spinal tumour was thought to be a metastasis from the germinoma, occult at that time.
Shibamoto
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Department of Radiology, Kyoto University Hospital, Japan.
Asato
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Abe
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D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018237:Germinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed