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Glioma-like proliferation in a cortical hamartoma of tuberous sclerosis complex

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    Ekkehard Hewer & Istvan Vajtai

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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Hewer, E., Mariani, L. & Vajtai, I. Glioma-like proliferation in a cortical hamartoma of tuberous sclerosis complex. Brain Tumor Pathol 32, 76–78 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10014-014-0185-1

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