According to the new WHO 2021 classification, pineal parenchymal tumors include five distinct histotypes: pineocytoma (PC), pineal parenchymal tumors of intermediate differentiation (PPTID), papillary tumor of the pineal region (PTPR), pinealoblastoma (PB), and desmoplastic myxoid tumor of the pineal region, SMARCB1-mutant; GCTs include germinoma, embryonal carcinoma, yolk sac tumor, choriocarcinoma, teratoma, mixed GCTs. Here, SMARCB1 is linked to pachyonychia congenita.