[Multiple metastases during the course of a pineal germinoma]. / Métastases multiples au cours de l'évolution d'un germinome pinéal.

ABSTRACT

The clinical findings and course of a patient with a germinoma of the pineal region is presented. After a surgical procedure and radiation treatment, ten months after, the patient develops successively peritoneal, ventricular, spinal metastasis. Effective treatment was either radiation treatment or chemotherapy. The frequency of metastasis with germinomas of the posterior part of the third ventricle are discussed, following a review of the literature, prevention and treatment are discussed.