Pinealoblastoma
| Pinealoblastoma | |
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| Classification and external resources | |
| Specialty | oncology |
| ICD-10 | C75.3 |
| ICD-O | 9362/3 |
| MeSH | D010871 |
Pineoblastoma (also pinealoblastoma) is a malignant tumor of the pineal gland. A pineoblastoma is a supratentorial midline primitive neuroectodermal tumor.
Pineoblastoma may occur in patients with hereditary uni- or bilateral retinoblastoma. When retinoblastoma patients present with pineoblastoma this is characterized as "trilateral retinoblastoma".[1] Prognosis of patients with trilateral retinoblastoma is dismal, only a few patients have survived more than 5 years after diagnosis; all survivors were diagnosed with small tumors in a subclinical stage.[2] Recent advances in (high-dose) chemotherapy treatment regimens and early detection have improved survival of patients with trilateral retinoblastoma to up to 50%.[3]
References
- ↑ Provenzale JM, Weber AL, Klintworth GK, McLendon RE (January 1995). "Radiologic-pathologic correlation. Bilateral retinoblastoma with coexistent pinealoblastoma (trilateral retinoblastoma)". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 16 (1): 157–65. PMID 7900586.
- ↑ Kivelä T (June 1999). "Trilateral retinoblastoma: a meta-analysis of hereditary retinoblastoma associated with primary ectopic intracranial retinoblastoma". Journal of Clinical Oncology 17 (6): 1829–37. PMID 10561222.
- ↑ De Jong MC, Kors WA, De Graaf P, Castelijns JA, Kivelä T, Moll AC (September 2014). "Trilateral retinoblastoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis". The Lancet Oncology 15 (10): 1157–67. doi:10.1016/s1470-2045(14)70336-5. PMID 25126964.
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