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Early treatment response of a rare papillary tumor of the pineal region after primary proton-beam therapy using the raster-scanning technique at HIT.
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Tumori [Tumori] 2012 Sep-Oct; Vol. 98 (5), pp. 122e-125e. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Pineocytomas are rare intracranial tumors occurring in the pineal gland region. The curative therapy of choice is gross total resection, which cannot be performed in all patients because of the frequent eloquent location of these tumors. Percutaneous fractionated radiotherapy is an alternative treatment approach that may result in high local control rates. Nevertheless, our knowledge of this tumor entity is limited and based on retrospective case series only. We present a patient with a papillary tumor of the pineal region who was treated with highly conformal proton-beam therapy at the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center (HIT) using the raster-scanning technique.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Biopsy methods
Brain Neoplasms complications
Brain Neoplasms pathology
Dose Fractionation, Radiation
Female
Germany
Humans
Hydrocephalus etiology
Hydrocephalus surgery
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Pinealoma complications
Pinealoma pathology
Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted
Stereotaxic Techniques
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Outcome
Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
Brain Neoplasms diagnosis
Brain Neoplasms radiotherapy
Pineal Gland pathology
Pinealoma diagnosis
Pinealoma radiotherapy
Proton Therapy methods
Radiotherapy, Conformal methods
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2038-2529
- Volume :
- 98
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Tumori
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 23235766
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1700/1190.13212