title: Bilateral germinoma involving the basal ganglia and cerebral white matter.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Terae
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saitoh
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sudoh
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sawamura
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyasaka
mesh_terms: 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