TABLE 2:

Summary of previous cases of primary intramedullary spinal cord germinoma

Patient No./ Age (y)/Sex	Series	Tumor Location	Surgery	Histologic Diagnosis	Values of hCG in Serum/CSF
1/5/M	Hisa et al, 1985^¹⁹	Th11–L3	Biopsy, amputation	Germinoma with syncitiotrophoblastic giant cells	High
2/31/F	Matsuoka et al, 1991²⁰	Th12–L2	Biopsy	Germinoma	Normal
3/31/M	Nagasawa et al, 1991¹⁷	Midcervical	Not performed	Probably germinoma	Not described
4/34/F	Hanafusa et al, 1993²¹	Th10–Th11	Gross total resection	Germinoma	Normal
5/16/F	Slagel et al, 1995²²	Th11–L4	Partial resection	Germinoma	Not described
6/34/F	Matsuyama et al, 1995²³	Th6–Th8	Partial resection	Germinoma	Normal
7/24/M	Itoh et al, 1996⁵	Th11–Th12	Gross total resection	Germinoma	Negative
8/24/M	Miyauchi et al, 1996²⁴	Th12–L3	Partial resection	Germinoma	Negative
9/29/M	Ganslandt et al, 2000⁶	Th12–L4	partial resection	Germinoma	High
10/33/M	Hata et al, 2002¹⁸	Th7–Th9	Partial resection	Germinoma	Normal
11/7/M	Zhu et al, 2002²⁵	Th12–L1	Not described	Germinoma with syncitiotrophoblastic giant cells	High
12/32/F	Sasaki et al, 2002²⁶	Th3–Th4	Not performed	s/o germinoma with syncitiotrophoblastic giant cells	High
13/18/M	Chute et al, 2003²⁷	Th6–Th8	Biopsy	Germinoma	High
14/18/M	Huang et al, 2004²⁸	C3–C6	Partial resection	Germinoma	Not described
15/33/F	Watanabe et al, 2005²⁹	Th1–Th3	Partial resection	Germinoma	Not described
16/35/M	Our patient 1	Th6–Th7	Total resection	Germinoma	High
17/27/M	Our patient 2	Th7–Th9	Partial resection	Germioma	High