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  1. Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul, 110-744, Korea

    Kyu-Chang Wang MD, PhD, Seung-Ki Kim MD, PhD & Byung-Kyu Cho MD, PhD

  2. Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul, 110-799, Korea

    Sung-Hye Park MD, PhD

  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul, 110-744, Korea

    In-One Kim MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Großhadern, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377, Munich, Germany

    Jörg-Christian Tonn MD

  2. Johns Hopkins Oncology Center Neuro-Oncology, Cancer Bldg G-93 1650 Orleans St., Baltimore, MD, 21231, USA

    Stuart A. Grossman

  3. Division of Neurosurgery, The University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Suite 1504, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada

    James T. Rutka MD

  4. Neurochirurgische Klinik, Universitätskrankenhaus Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

    Manfred Westphal MD

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Wang, KC., Kim, SK., Park, SH., Kim, IO., Cho, BK. (2006). Intracranial Germ Cell Tumors. In: Tonn, JC., Grossman, S.A., Rutka, J.T., Westphal, M. (eds) Neuro-Oncology of CNS Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31260-9_42

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