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Desmoplastic Infantile Astrocytoma and Ganglioglioma

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Desmoplastic infantile astrocytomas and gangliogliomas are rare, superficial cerebral cortical and leptomeningeal large cystic tumors with dural attachment.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, RM 286A, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Adekunle M. Adesina M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. Adekunle M. Adesina M.D., Ph.D.
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  1. Department of Pathology, Texas Children’s Hospital Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

    Adekunle M. Adesina

  2. Department of Pathology, Neuropathology Division, San Francisco, California, USA

    Tarik Tihan

  3. Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Virgin Islands, USA

    Christine E. Fuller

  4. PBTC Neuroimaging Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Tina Young Poussaint

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Adesina, A.M. (2016). Desmoplastic Infantile Astrocytoma and Ganglioglioma. In: Adesina, A., Tihan, T., Fuller, C., Poussaint, T. (eds) Atlas of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33432-5_17

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