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Radiology, Vol 128, 745-751, Copyright © 1978 by Radiological Society of North America

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Midline pineal tumors and suprasellar germinomas: highly curable by irradiation

DI Sung, L Harisliadis and CH Chang

Sixty-one patients with midline pineal tumors and 16 patients with suprasellar germinomas were treated with surgical decompression and relatively high-dose radiotherapy of the primary site. Results were excellent, and there were no long-term complications. Ten per cent of midline pineal tumors and 37% of suprasellar germinomas metastasized to the cerebral or spinal subarachnoid space within 6 months to 5 years. Irradiation of the entire neural axis is recommended for locally extensive tumors, simultaneous pineal and hypothalamic lesions, and all biopsy-proved germinomas. The five-year survival rate was 79% for midline pineal tumors and 77% for suprasellar germinomas.


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