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Tumors of the Pineal Gland

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Pineal tumors are estimated to represent 0.4–1% of central nervous system tumors in adulthood. It is more common in children where it represents around 3–8%. It can be classified into germ cell tumors, pineal parenchymal tumors, glial tumors, and other miscellaneous tumors. The most important factors to predict the overall survival in pineal parenchymal tumors are age, presence of dissemination, and the histopathological features.

All the pathology slides included in this chapter are the Courtesy of Sadeq Wasil Al-Dandan, Department of Pathology, Maternity and Children Hospital, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

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All the pathology slides except Figure 5.4 were taken from Figure 15.08, Chapter 15 ,WHO classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System, Revised 4th Edition, published by international Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France.

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  2. Department of Pathology, Maternity and Children Hospital, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

    Sadeq Wasil Al-Dandan

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq

    Muthanna Noaman Abdulqader

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Al Ramadan, A.H., Al-Dandan, S.W., Abdulqader, M.N. (2020). Tumors of the Pineal Gland. In: Hoz, S.S., et al. Pineal Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53191-1_5

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