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Glial and meningothelial proliferations of the skin are rare. In this chapter, nasal glioma (glial heterotopia), meningocele, and cutaneous meningioma are discussed. As a group, these lesions represent a spectrum of abnormalities related to abnormal closure of the neural tube or abnormal migration of neural crest cells during development; therefore, semantically some of them are not considered true neoplasms, but as ectopic or heterotopic cell nests which can be the origin of a neoplastic proliferation.
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Argenyi, Z., Jokinen, C.H. (2011). Cutaneous Glial and Meningothelial Proliferations. In: Cutaneous Neural Neoplasms. Current Clinical Pathology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-582-8_8
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