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Paediatric clear cell meningioma with multiple distant recurrences after presumed intra-operative cell spread

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Professor Martin Hasselblatt, Neuropathology Münster, Germany for providing us slides from the primary tumour and Mrs. Petra Stauder-Simmons for her help with the English.

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  1. Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Onno Küster, Jens Schittenhelm & Richard Meyermann

  2. Childrens Hospital, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Oliver Schwartz

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Martin U. Schuhmann

  4. Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Onno Küster

  5. Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital of Tübingen, Calwer-Str. 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Jens Schittenhelm

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Küster, O., Schittenhelm, J., Schwartz, O. et al. Paediatric clear cell meningioma with multiple distant recurrences after presumed intra-operative cell spread. Childs Nerv Syst 28, 925–931 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-011-1669-5

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