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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2013, Article ID 798358, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/798358
Case Report

Primary Spinal Germ Cell Tumors: A Case Analysis and Review of Treatment Paradigms

Joshua J. Loya,1 Henry Jung,1 Caroline Temmins,2 Nam Cho,3 and Harminder Singh1

1Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Edwards Building, Neurosurgery Mailroom, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5487, USA
2Department of Pathology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), 751 South Bascom Ave., San Jose, CA 95128, USA
3Department of Radiation Oncology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC), 751 South Bascom Ave., San Jose, CA 95128, USA

Received 11 July 2013; Revised 2 September 2013; Accepted 12 September 2013

Academic Editor: Sarkis Meterissian

Copyright © 2013 Joshua J. Loya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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