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Metastatic rhabdoid meningioma with BRAF V600E mutation and good response to personalized therapy: case report and review of the literature.
Pediatric hematology and oncology - 1 Apr 2015
Mordechai Oz, Postovsky Sergey, Vlodavsky Eugene, Eran Ayelet, Constantini Shlomi, Dotan Eynat, Cagnano Emmanuela, Weyl-Ben-Arush Myriam
Abstract excerpt
Rhabdoid meningioma is an aggressive phenotype of meningioma, associated with a poor prognosis. We present a very rare case of high-grade meningioma with rhabdoid features that eventually expressed in a coma state. Comprehensive genomic profiling using a Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) assay revealed three genomic alterations: activating BRAF mutation (V600E), loss of CDKN2A/2B, and APC I1307K. After treatment...
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