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Congenital pineoblastoma and parameningeal rhabdomyosarcoma: concurrent two embryonal tumors in a young infant.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery - 1 May 2006
Corapçíoğlu Funda, Memet Ozek M, Sav Aydin, Uren Deniz
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BACKGROUND: Pineoblastomas are very rare brain tumors in fetus and neonates, comprising only 0.9% of congenital brain tumors. The occurrence of multiple tumors of different histopathologic types in the same individual is a rare event, most often encountered in hereditary cancer syndromes. CASE REPORT: We report a female fetus presented with a congenital pineoblastoma at the 32nd week of gestation, with...
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