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ArticleBrain sciences2022

High Myoinositol on Proton MR Spectroscopy Could Be a Potential Signature of Papillary Tumors of the Pineal Region-Case Report of Two Patients.

Albert Pons-Escoda, Juan Jose Sánchez Fernández, Àlex de Vilalta, Noemí Vidal, Carles Majós

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Article in Brain sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Albert Pons-EscodaInstitut de Diagnóstic per la Imatge (IDI), Department of Radiology, Hospital de Bellvitge, 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4167-8291
Juan Jose Sánchez FernándezInstitut de Diagnóstic per la Imatge (IDI), Department of Radiology, Hospital de Bellvitge, 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Àlex de VilaltaDeparment of Neurosurgery, Hospital de Bellvitge, 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Noemí VidalNeuro-Oncology Unit, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2852-6667
Carles MajósInstitut de Diagnóstic per la Imatge (IDI), Department of Radiology, Hospital de Bellvitge, 08908 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.

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Abstract

Papillary tumor of the pineal region (PTPR) is an uncommon entity in which a presurgical suspicion may be crucial for patient management. Maximal safe neurosurgical resection is of choice when PTPR is suspected, whereas non-surgical approaches can be considered in other tumors of the pineal region, such as pineocytoma or concrete subtypes of germ-cell tumors. In general terms, imaging features of tumors of the pineal region have been reported to be unspecific. Nevertheless, in this report, we describe two pathology-confirmed PTPRs in which presurgical proton MR spectroscopy demonstrated extremely high myoinositol, a pattern which drastically differs from that of other pineal tumors. We hypothesize that this high myoinositol may be related to PTPR's known ependymal component, and that it could be used as a specific non-invasive diagnostic signature.

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differential diagnosismyoinositolNMR spectroscopypineal neoplasms

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