The feasibility of surgery depends on the type of the intracranial germ cell tumor at diagnosis. Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with germ cell tumors. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with either NGGCTs, or in patients who have had an incomplete response to initial chemotherapy, and in patients with "growing teratoma syndrome".
Germinoma surgery
Neuroblastoma surgery
Medulloblastoma surgery
Ependymoma surgery
Neurofibroma surgery
Schwannoma surgery
Wilms' tumor surgery
Myxoma surgery