A Rare Case of Primary Spinal Cord Germinoma Treated with Single Radiation Therapy after Surgery / 대한내과학회지
Korean Journal of Medicine
;
: 404-408, 2018.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-716216
ABSTRACT
A 32-year old male came to our hospital with chief complaint of paraplegia. He had symptom of radiating pain to right leg 3 months ago before paraplegic symptom appeared. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging from outside hospital showed intramedullary mass involving from T8 to T10 level of spinal cord. According to the imaging result, tumor removal with total laminectomy was performed between T8 and T10 level in our hospital. Pathologic result was compatible with germinoma. Spine radiation (39.6 Gy/22 fx) from T7 to T12 level without chemotherapy was performed 3 weeks later since tumor removal. Follow-up MR imaging showed no recurrence without any distant metastasis. And our patient's neurologic symptom had been improved. According to this case, postoperative radiotherapy is thought to be effective to primary spinal germinoma.
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Main subject:
Paraplegia
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Radiotherapy
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Recurrence
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Spinal Cord
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Spine
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Follow-Up Studies
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Germinoma
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Drug Therapy
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Laminectomy
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medicine
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
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