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Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma ventricular peritoneal shunt metastasis: a case report and literature review.

Chloé Louise GelderCynthia HawkinsMichal ZapotockyPeter DirksUte BartelsEric Bouffet
Published in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2019)
Dissemination of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) outside the central nervous system is exceptional. Here, we present a child diagnosed with DIPG who developed seeding along the track of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt and review the literature on this unusual occurrence.
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