Bilateral germinoma involving the basal ganglia and cerebral white matter.
We describe radiologic findings of germinoma involving bilateral basal ganglia and cerebral white matter. In the early stage, T1-weighted MR images showed hyperintense areas in the bilateral globi pallidi. Later, T2-weighted images showed hyperintense areas involving bilateral white matter. The MR imaging findings reported here could help facilitate the early diagnosis of germ cell tumors in young patients.
Oyama
Noriko
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Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
Terae
Satoshi
S
Saitoh
Shinji
S
Sudoh
Akira
A
Sawamura
Yutaka
Y
Miyasaka
Kazuo
K
D001480:Basal Ganglia Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D018237:Germinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male