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Accidents, nearly one-half involving motor vehicles, are the leading cause of death in children beyond the neonatal period. Malignancies are second, with only leukemia and lymphomas surpassing brain tumors in frequency. The average annual incidence rate for CNS neoplasms is between 2 and 5 cases/100,000 population per year.1
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Golden, G.S. (1987). Neoplasms. In: Textbook of Pediatric Neurology. Topics in Pediatrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7029-1_19
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