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Neuroendocrine tumors in the brain.
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology - 1 Jan 2001
Cavalla P, Schiffer D
Abstract excerpt
Somatostatin and other neuropeptides are expressed in tumors originating from neuronal precursors and paraganglia, namely medulloblastoma, central Primitive Neuro-Ectodermal Tumors (cPNETs), neurocytoma, gangliocytoma. olfactory neuroblastoma, paraganglioma. In medulloblastoma, the most common malignant tumor in childhood, there is an extensive expression of somatostatin in addition to somatostatin receptors...
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