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Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 290905, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/290905
Case Report

Secondary Glioblastoma Multiforme in a Child with Disseminated Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma

C. S. Amene,1 L. A. Yeh-Nayre,2 and J. R. Crawford2,3,4

1The Departments of Neurosurgery, San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital, University of California, 3020 Children's Way San Diego, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
2The Departments of Pediatrics, San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital, University of California, 3020 Children's Way San Diego, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
3The Departments of Neurosciences, San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital, University of California, 3020 Children's Way San Diego, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
4Division of Child Neurology, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, University of California San Diego, 8010 Frost Street Suite 400, 3020 Children's Way San Diego, San Diego, CA 92123, USA

Received 17 September 2012; Accepted 24 October 2012

Academic Editors: D. Chua, J. Itami, J. M. Ribera, and D. Yin

Copyright © 2012 C. S. Amene et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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