Case Report
A Rare Localized Pituitary Stalk Germinoma Presenting in the Third Decade
Table 2
Cases of germinomas with similar clinical features described in the literature.
| Case | Age | Sex | Clinical Feature | Hormonal Deficiency | Stalk Thickening MRI | Treated as LH | Tumors Markers |
| Terasaka et al. (2012) [3] | 40 | Female | Headache, diplopia | Hypopituitarism, Central DI | Yes | Yes | PLAP | Torremocha et al. (2002) [4] | 45 | Male | Headache | Gonadotropin deficiencies | Yes | Yes | b-hCG [CSF] | Shimizu et al. (2014) [5] | 36 | Male | General malaise, decreased libido | Hypopituitarism, Central DI | Yes | No | None | Wen-Ping Yang et al. (2017) [6] | 38 | Male | General weakness | Hypopituitarism, | No | No | b-hCG [CSF] | Gonzalez et al. (2018) | 34 | Male | Fatigue, decreased libido | Hypopituitarism, Central DI | Yes | Yes | PLAP, C-kit, b-hCG |
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PLAP: placental alkaline phosphatase, DI: diabetes insipidus, b-hCG: beta-human chorionic gonadotropin, CSF: cerebrospinal fluid, MRI: magnetic resonance imaging, and LH: lymphocytic hypophysitis.
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