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Hemangiopericytoma and Other Mesenchymal Tumors

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Meningeal hemangiopericytomas are highly cellular mesenchymal tumors exhibiting characteristic “staghorn” vasculature, akin to their soft tissue counterparts.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Christine E. Fuller M.D. (Professor of Pathology, Director of Neuropathology)

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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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Fuller, C.E. (2010). Hemangiopericytoma and Other Mesenchymal 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_10

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