Vanishing pineal mass in a young patient without therapy: Case report and review of the literature.
Spontaneous regression is defined as the decrease in size or disappearance of a primary tumour or metastatic disease without therapeutic intervention. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain was performed in a 14-year-old girl experiencing sudden-onset headaches. First diagnostic exams revealed a mass in the pineal region that disappeared at three-month MRI control. Three-year follow-up MRI studies were performed. No therapy was administered, but the pineal lesion had disappeared at three-year follow-up.
Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Lucia
L
Patriarca
Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Federico
F
D'Orazio
Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Ernesto
E
Di Cesare
Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy alessandra.splendiani@cc.univaq.it.
Alessandra
A
Splendiani
D000293:Adolescent; D001224:Aspartic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002794:Choline / Q000378:metabolism; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D005973:Glutamine / Q000378:metabolism; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010870:Pineal Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010871:Pinealoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005973:Glutamine; D001224:Aspartic Acid; D018698:Glutamic Acid; C000179:N-acetylaspartate; D002794:Choline
MRI study; Pineal tumour; germ cell tumours; hydrocephalus