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Germ Cell Tumors

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Germ cell tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) are typically midline lesions commonly affecting the pineal and suprasellar regions; they can often spread along the ventricular surfaces.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Neuropathology Division, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M551, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0102, USA

    Tarik Tihan 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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Tihan, T. (2016). Germ Cell Tumors. 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_35

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