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Meningiomas are dural-based neoplasms derived from meningothelial (arachnoid) cells; they include a wide variety of histologic subtypes, ranging from benign WHO grade I variants to more biologically aggressive meningiomas encompassing WHO grades II and III.
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Fuller, C.E. (2016). Meningiomas. In: Adesina, A., Tihan, T., Fuller, C., Poussaint, T. (eds) Atlas of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33432-5_10
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