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A case of a choroid plexus papilloma mimicking a hemangioblastoma—letter to the editor

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Eberhard-Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler Street 3, Tuebingen, Germany

    Felix Behling, Marcos Soares Tatagiba & Florian Heinrich Ebner

  2. Department of Neuroradiology, Eberhard-Karls University, Hoppe-Seyler Street 3, Tuebingen, Germany

    Ulrike Ernemann

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I read with pleasure this concise and dense of information report.

We are now more aware that CCP may exhibit variable and unusual MRI patterns.

Domenico d’Avella

Padova - Italy

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Behling, F., Ernemann, U., Tatagiba, M.S. et al. A case of a choroid plexus papilloma mimicking a hemangioblastoma—letter to the editor. Acta Neurochir 157, 1779–1781 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-015-2520-7

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