[A case of double primary malignancy of intracranial germinoma and thymoma controlled by radiotherapy]

Nihon Gan Chiryo Gakkai Shi. 1990 Apr 20;25(4):821-5.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We report a case of double primary malignancy, in which intracranial germinoma and thymoma occurred successively and independently. As curative therapies, the former lesion was treated by definitive irradiation and the latter by postoperative irradiation. Excellent local control has been maintained for 79 and 49 months, respectively, since the beginning of the radiotherapy. The accumulated dose to the thoracic spinal cord was 63.5 Gy. No symptoms suggesting the onset of radiation myelopathy, the most critical late radiation injury, have been observed up to now. We also investigated radiobiological effect to the spinal cord assessed by the formulae of CRE and TDF.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Dysgerminoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Dysgerminoma / radiotherapy*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary*
  • Radiotherapy Dosage
  • Thymoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Thymoma / radiotherapy*
  • Thymus Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Thymus Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed