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Introduction and Overview of Brain Tumors

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In this issue of the Atlas of Pediatric Brain Tumors, we have classified the tumor types based on the 2007 WHO classification of brain tumors (Table 0.1). This classification assumes that the pattern of differentiation reflects the cell of origin. The longstanding concept suggesting that brain tumors arise as a result of “degeneration” of mature cell types has been questioned.

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  1. Section of Neuropathology and Molecular Neuropathology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Adekunle M. Adesina M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Pathology, Medical Director)

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  1. Dept. Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor Plaza 1, Houston, 77030, U.S.A.

    Adekunle M. Adesina

  2. School of Medicine, University of California, Parnassus Ave. 505, San Francisco, 94143, U.S.A.

    Tarik Tihan

  3. VCU Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, E. Marshall Street 1200, Richmond, 23298, U.S.A.

    Christine E. Fuller

  4. Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Ave. 300, Boston, 02115, U.S.A.

    Tina Young Poussaint

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Adesina, A.M. (2010). Introduction and Overview of Brain Tumors. In: Adesina, A., Tihan, T., Fuller, C., Poussaint, T. (eds) Atlas of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1062-2_0

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