Abstract
Intracranial germ cell tumours are rare malignancies of childhood, adolescence and young adults. The tumour characteristics,histology types, principles of treatment and their prognosis are described in the introduction.
In two not quite typical cases, clinicalfinding, diagnostic and therapeutic procedure, and result of treatment of a young patient with pure germinoma and of a younggirl with CNS dysgerminoma are described. The cases confirm a high radio- and chemosensitivity of intracranial germ cell tumours