...R. Pomarède; J. Finidori; P. Czernichow; A. Pfister; J.F. Hirsch; R. Rappaport The present report concerns a 10-year-old boy in whom diabetes insipidus and short stature were the first manifestations of a suprasellar germinoma. Neuroradiological investigations performed when these symptoms appeared...

... literature, the importance of diabetes insipidus as a very early symptom of pineal region tumors should be emphasized; in some cases, it preceded the appearance of precocious puberty or neuro-ophtalmologic signs by some years. A variable pattern of anterior pituitary impairment is also a rather common...