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Pediatric CNS Tumors

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Gangliocytoma and ganglioglioma represent a family of rare, slow-growing, neuronal tumors. The term “ganglioglioma” was first introduced by Courville in 1930 to describe the mixed neuronal and glial elements typically seen in this tumor (Courville 1930).

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  1. Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Nalin Gupta MD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Chief) (Assistant Professor, Chief)

  2. Division of Neuro-Oncology, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Anuradha Banerjee MD, MPH (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

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von Koch, C.S., Schmidt, M.H., Perry, V. (2004). Neuronal Tumors. In: Gupta, N., Banerjee, A., Haas-Kogan, D. (eds) Pediatric CNS Tumors. Pediatric Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09227-9_9

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