An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis

Central nervous system (CNS) germinomas often extend or disseminate into the ventricular and subarachnoid space. We present a case of primary CNS germinoma consisting mainly of meningeal dissemination, which is extremely unusual and must be kept in the differential diagnosis.

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Autores principales: Sharma, Amit Kumar, Jagetia, Anita, Srivastava, Arvind Kumar, Saran, Ravindra Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33708683
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_174_20
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author Sharma, Amit Kumar
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description Central nervous system (CNS) germinomas often extend or disseminate into the ventricular and subarachnoid space. We present a case of primary CNS germinoma consisting mainly of meningeal dissemination, which is extremely unusual and must be kept in the differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-78692622021-03-10 An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis Sharma, Amit Kumar Jagetia, Anita Srivastava, Arvind Kumar Saran, Ravindra Kumar Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Central nervous system (CNS) germinomas often extend or disseminate into the ventricular and subarachnoid space. We present a case of primary CNS germinoma consisting mainly of meningeal dissemination, which is extremely unusual and must be kept in the differential diagnosis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7869262/ /pubmed/33708683 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_174_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Case Report
Sharma, Amit Kumar
Jagetia, Anita
Srivastava, Arvind Kumar
Saran, Ravindra Kumar
An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis
title An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis
title_full An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis
title_short An Unusual Case of Primary Intracranial Germinoma with Diffuse Subarachnoid Spread Masquerading as Tuberculous Meningitis
title_sort unusual case of primary intracranial germinoma with diffuse subarachnoid spread masquerading as tuberculous meningitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33708683
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_174_20
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