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3D Modeling of the Lateral Ventricles and Histological Characterization of Periventricular Tissue in Humans and Mouse
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Asymptomatic intraventricular lipid leak from a primary pineal teratoma
1Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey, UK. rachael_harrison@hotmail.com
Pediatric Radiology
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
We present a case of pineal teratoma in a symptomatically stable 6-year-old child in which MRI revealed intraventricular lipid accumulation in the absence of any primary tumour growth, metastatic disease or tumour degeneration.
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