S-C-5. Pineal Region Tumor
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MR imaging of papillary tumor of the pineal region.
We report the imaging features of 4 cases of patients with papillary tumor of the pineal region, a tumor newly recognized in the 2007 World Health Organization "Classification of Tumors of the Nervous System." In each case, the tumor was intrinsically hyperintense on T1-weighted images with a characteristic location in the posterior commissure or pineal region. The pathologic hallmarks of the t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.7.94