Abstract

  A variety of lesions involve the pineal region these include both neoplastic processes and congenital le¬sions. Tumors of the pineal region are classified into those arising from the pineal parenchyma, germ cell neoplasms, metastasis, and lesions aris¬ing from adjacent structures. They make up less than 1% of intracranial tumors in adults and are commoner in children. Knowledge of the variety of lesions that occur in the pineal region, their imaging ap¬pearances, and their clinical features assists in narrowing the differential diagnosis and optimizing patient treatment of these rare tumors. Pineal gland lesions as it is are rare, with only a few cytologic descriptions occurring in the literature. We hereby present 04 cases of pineal region tumours with a radiology cytology and histopathological correlation.

Keywords: Pineal Gland; Cytology; Pineoblastoma; Pineocytoma; Germinoma

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Citation

Citation: Prabal Deb and Gurpreet Kaur. “A Clinicopathological Correlation of Pineal Region Tumours". Acta Scientific Neurology 3.11 (2020): 20-25.

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Copyright: © 2020 Prabal Deb and Gurpreet Kaur. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.