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Summary Primary germinomas in the spinal cord are very rare with only 15 cases published previously. In this case a 22-year-old woman with urinary incontinence, lumbago, and bilateral leg pain and weakness was found to have a solid tumor in the conus medullaris between the L1 and L2 vertebral bodies. Serum HCG was elevated without pregnancy. The pathological diagnosis was mixed germinoma and choriocarcinoma...
Summary Radiation-induced neoplasms of the central nervous system generally present as meningioma or sarcoma. Spinal cord glioma after radiation therapy is rare and half of the cases documented occurred after treatment of Hodgkin’s disease. A 39-year-old male presented with a 1-month history of gradually worsening neck ache and paraparesis. The patient had been treated for stage IB Hodgkin’s disease...
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