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Secondary meningioma in a long-term survivor of atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumour with a germline INI1 mutation.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery - 1 Jul 2008
Ammerlaan A C J, Houben M P W A, Tijssen C C, Wesseling P, Hulsebos T J M
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OBJECTIVE: We report on a patient who developed a meningioma more than two decades after removal at a young age of an atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumour (AT/RT), which was due to a germline INI1 mutation, and radio- and chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We present genetic evidence that the meningioma is not a recurrence or metastasis of the AT/RT and not due to the INI1 mutation, but is a radiation-induced...
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