Pediatric Gliomas Presenting with Gliomatosis-Like Spread, Lack of Contrast Enhancement, EGFR Mutation, and TERT Promoter Variants

J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2021 Dec 29;80(12):1134-1136. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlab093.

Authors

Heather L Smith¹, John Collins², Deric Park³, Wendy Darlington⁴, Martha Quezado⁵, Kenneth Aldape⁵, Peter Warnke⁶, Peter Pytel¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
² Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁵ Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Brain Neoplasms / genetics*
Brain Neoplasms / pathology
Child
ErbB Receptors / genetics
Glioma / genetics*
Glioma / pathology
Humans
Male
Mutation
Promoter Regions, Genetic
Telomerase / genetics*

Substances

EGFR protein, human
ErbB Receptors
TERT protein, human
Telomerase