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K Hassouni

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PubMed2002

[Central nervous system germinoma: retrospective study of six cases].

PURPOSE: Retrospective analysis of six patients with intracranial germinoma treated in INO and a literature review. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Six patients were treated from 1993 to 1998, for histologically verified primary intracranial germinoma. Median age was 18 years (range: 14-26 years). All patients received chemo-radiotherapy (4FP + radiotherapy from 30 to 50 Gy). RESULTS: 4 tumours were in complete remission. Two patients have kept non-evolutive residual cyst. Five patients are alive with non-evolutive disease after 15-40 months of follow-up (average: 27 months). One patient was lost to follow-up, 14 months after treatment, without disease. CONCLUSION: The treatment of intracranial germinoma is currently first line chemotherapy followed by low-dose and limited irradiation.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2000

Primary malignant lymphoma of the ovary: an unusual presentation of a rare disease.

Because the outcome of patients with primary ovarian non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is controversial, we present the incidental finding of a primary malignant lymphoma of the ovary in a 50-year-old patient. Three and a half years following ablative surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy, the patient is alive and disease free. Ovarian lymphoma is a disease of reportedly poor prognosis. However, many previously reported cases of ovarian lymphoma actually represented ovarian involvement by a more diffuse lymphomatous process. If stringent criteria are used for case selection, true primary ovarian lymphoma is a very rare disease and usually carries a favorable prognosis.

Diagnosis, Differential↗