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These dural-based lesions are thought to derive from the leptomeningeal melanocytes. They include circumscribed mass lesions, melanocytoma and malignant melanoma, and diffuse leptomeningeal melanocytosis (DLM) and its malignant counterpart, melanomatosis.

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  1. Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., MLC 1035, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3026, USA

    Christine E. Fuller M.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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Fuller, C.E. (2016). Melanocytic Lesions. 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_12

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