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Case Reports
. 2019 Aug;33(4):439-441.
doi: 10.1080/02688697.2017.1366420. Epub 2017 Aug 22.

Urgent surgical management of congenital intracranial hemangiopericytoma in a preterm neonate

Seda Yilmaz Semerci  1 , Gamze Demirel  1 , Binay Vatansever  1 , Semra Gundogdu  1 , Fatihhan Bolukbasi  2 , Gulbin Oran  3 , Volkan Hazar  4 , Ayhan Tastekin  1
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Urgent surgical management of congenital intracranial hemangiopericytoma in a preterm neonate

Seda Yilmaz Semerci et al. Br J Neurosurg. 2019 Aug.

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Abstract

Hemangiopericytoma is a rare mesenchymal tumor originating from capillary pericytes, known as Zimmermann pericytes. The adult form is not uncommon and generally malignant but tumor is found rarely in children. Here we describe an intracranial hemangiopericytoma in a preterm newborn whose had the tumor resected successfully shortly after birth.

Keywords: Hemangiopericytoma; neonate; preterm.

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