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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 99, 826-832, Copyright © 1967 by American Roentgen Ray Society

PINEAL BODY TUMORS

JOHN G. MAIER MC1 and DAVID DEJONG MC1

1 From the Radiology Service and the Pathology Service, Walter Reed General Hospital

Sixteen patients with pineal body tumors have been evaluated. Ten patients were treated definitively with a combination of surrgical decompression for increased intracranial pressu re followed by postoperative irradiation. Five of these patients lived beyond 5 years and 2 are living and clinically free of tumor at 16 and 18 months postirradiation. Three patients had significant palliation, but died between 2 and 4 years post treatment. Three patients were not diagnosed as having pineal body tumors until autopsy. Two patients died postoperatively following attempt at decompression for increased intracranial pressure and 1 patient died 4 months after a Torkildsen procedure without having postoperrative irradiation. An early clinical diagnosis followed by decompressive surgery and postoperative irradiation can be expec ted to improve results in such tumors.


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