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giant cell astrocytoma


malignant transformation from hamartoma (tuber) of tuberous sclerosis

  • enhances (unlike benign lesions)
  • arises only about foramen of Monro

  • not really an astrocytoma, it's a "giant-cell tumor"


Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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