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Intracranial germinoma causing cerebral haemiatrophy and hypopituitarism
Abstract
A young woman presented with primary amenorrhoea, progressive haemiparesis, visual disturbance, dementia and focal motor seizures. Investigations showed hypopituitarism, unilateral cerebral atrophy and inflamed cerebrospinal fluid. A trans-sphenoidal biopsy gave a unifying diagnosis of a pituitary germinoma.
- tumours
- paediatric neurology
- paediatric neuropathology
- neuroimmunology
- neuroendocrinology
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