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Imaging Characteristics of Wingless Pathway Subgroup Medulloblastomas: Results from the German HIT/SIOP-Trial Cohort

A. Stock, M. Mynarek, T. Pietsch, S.M. Pfister, S.C. Clifford, T. Goschzik, D. Sturm, E.C. Schwalbe, D. Hicks, S. Rutkowski, B. Bison, M. Pham and M. Warmuth-Metz
American Journal of Neuroradiology October 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A6286
A. Stock
aFrom the Department of Neuroradiology (A.S., B.B., M.P., M.W.-M.), University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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M. Mynarek
bDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (M.M., S.R.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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T. Pietsch
cInstitute of Neuropathology (T.P., T.G.), DGNN Brain Tumor Reference Center, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
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S.M. Pfister
dDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (S.M.P.), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
eDivision of Pediatric Neurooncology (S.M.P.), German Cancer Consortium, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
fHopp Children's Cancer Heidelberg (S.M.P., D.S.), Heidelberg, Germany
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S.C. Clifford
gWolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre (S.C.C., E.C.S., D.H.), Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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T. Goschzik
cInstitute of Neuropathology (T.P., T.G.), DGNN Brain Tumor Reference Center, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany
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D. Sturm
fHopp Children's Cancer Heidelberg (S.M.P., D.S.), Heidelberg, Germany
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E.C. Schwalbe
gWolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre (S.C.C., E.C.S., D.H.), Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
hDepartment of Applied Sciences (E.C.S.), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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D. Hicks
gWolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre (S.C.C., E.C.S., D.H.), Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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S. Rutkowski
bDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (M.M., S.R.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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B. Bison
aFrom the Department of Neuroradiology (A.S., B.B., M.P., M.W.-M.), University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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M. Pham
aFrom the Department of Neuroradiology (A.S., B.B., M.P., M.W.-M.), University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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aFrom the Department of Neuroradiology (A.S., B.B., M.P., M.W.-M.), University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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A. Stock, M. Mynarek, T. Pietsch, S.M. Pfister, S.C. Clifford, T. Goschzik, D. Sturm, E.C. Schwalbe, D. Hicks, S. Rutkowski, B. Bison, M. Pham, M. Warmuth-Metz
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