Abstract
We report a patient who initially presented with an intramedullary spinal tumour and developed an intracranial germinoma 3.5 years later. The original spinal tumour was thought to be a metastasis from the germinoma, occult at that time.
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Shibamoto, Y., Asato, R. & Abe, M. Spinal metastasis from occult intracranial germinoma mimicking primary intramedullary tumour. Neuroradiology 36, 137–138 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00588080
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