PMID: 9548339Apr 21, 1998Paper

Identical characteristics of the patient populations with pineal region tumors in Japan and in Korea and therapeutic modalities

Child's Nervous System : ChNS : Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Shizuo OiB K Cho

Abstract

The therapeutic modalities used for tumors of the pineal region in Western countries differ from those in Japan, mainly because of the different patient populations. An extensive survey was conducted to delineate the racial differences in Japan and in Korea in the epidemiology and recent therapeutic modalities for this tumor group. Among the members of International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN), 15 from Japan and 5 from Korea reported their recent findings in 118 (1-25 years of age, mean 7.38-year period) and 125 (1-12 years of age, mean 6.69-year period) histologically verified cases, respectively. The patient populations in the two countries were found to be almost identical, with an extremely high incidence of germ cell tumors representing 71.2% (in Japan) and 80.0% (in Korea) of all pineal region tumors and neuroectodermal tumors representing only 15.2% and 16.8%, respectively. The most common type of pineal region tumor was germinoma (46.6% in Japan and 47.2% in Korea). The majority of tumors were radio- and/or chemosensitive, and adjuvant therapy rather than extensive surgery played the major role in the treatment in both countries. Radical resection of the tumor was recommended as the initial procedure by on...Continue Reading

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