Reversible hearing loss associated with a malignant pineal germ cell tumor. Case report
| Autor: | Nathalie Gaspar, Laurence Brugières, Dominique Couanet, Ghislaine Mercier, Christian Sainte-Rose, Arnauld Verschuur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Hearing loss medicine.medical_treatment Audiometry Glioma Superior Colliculi Medicine Humans Child Hearing Loss Intracranial pressure Inferior Colliculi medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.disease Combined Modality Therapy Magnetic Resonance Imaging Radiation therapy Pinealoma Germinoma medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of neurosurgery. 99(3) |
| ISSN: | 0022-3085 |
| Popis: | ✓ In patients with pineal tumors, clinical symptoms are due to direct compression of adjacent structures. The most common signs include increased intracranial pressure (80%) caused by obstruction of the sylvian aqueduct, and Parinaud syndrome (50%) caused by direct compression of the superior colliculi. Hearing loss is rare in patients with tumors in this location. The authors report on the case of a 12-year-old boy in whom a malignant pineal germ cell tumor was found together with the unusual occurrence of severe hearing loss due to direct bilateral compression of the inferior colliculi. This condition resolved completely after tumor regression. |
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