TERATOMA OF THE PINEAL BODY: A Clinicopathologic Report

摘要: The occurrence of a teratomatous tumor in the pineal body female is very rare, only 1 instance being recorded literature (Luce ). case to be reported unusual both because large size and its girl aged 6 months, who clinically presented picture slowly, progressively developing internal hydrocephalus. REPORT OF A CASE History. —A white was admitted pediatric division Cook County Hospital on Jan. 26, 1937. She born Aug. 25, 1936, after labor that lasted ten hours uneventful. Soon afterward, child began vomit feeding, she taken nearby hospital, where bilateral ventricular puncture lumbar were done, with insertion dye into one lateral ventricles. This showed free communication between ventricles but none