Metastatic bronchial neuroendocrine tumor to the pineal gland: A unique manifestation of a rare disease

Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg, Susana Fichman, Ilan Shimon

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Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET) to the pineal gland is a unique manifestation previously unreported in the literature. We describe an unusual case of metastatic bronchial NET to the pineal gland in a 71-year-old male patient. His primary NET had been resected six years previously and there was no indication of the presence of disseminated metastatic disease at that time …

The Pineal Gland and its earliest physiological description

Konstantinos Laios

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Dear Editor, The earliest physiological description of the Pineal (Latin: pinea = pinecone) Gland (also occasionally “conarium”, from the Greek: κωνάριο = κώνος = cone, pinecone) is found in two medical works written by Galen (2nd c. AD) (Figure 1). These works contain its anatomical description …