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Case Reports
. 1979 Jun;102(2):321-32.
doi: 10.1093/brain/102.2.321.

Pinealoblastoma with retinoblastomatous differentiation

S Z Stefanko, W A Manschot
Case Reports

Pinealoblastoma with retinoblastomatous differentiation

S Z Stefanko et al. Brain. 1979 Jun.

Abstract

A case of primitive neuroectodermal tumour originating from pineal parenchymal cells in a 2 1/2-year-old boy is described. The tumour exhibited divergent lines of differentiation including neuroblastic and photoreceptor differentiation, thus aligning it with neuroblastomas and with retinoblastomas. The tumour recalls the function of the pineal as a photoreceptor organ at an earlier stage of its phylogenesis.

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