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Subventricular spread of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS K08NS070926 to M.M.), Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (M.M.), McKenna Claire Foundation (M.M.), The Cure Starts Now (M.M.), Lyla Nsouli Foundation (M.M.), Semmy Foundation (V.C.), the Dylan Jewett, Connor Johnson, Zoey Ganesh, Dylan Frick, Abigail Jensen, Wayland Villars, and Jennifer Kranz Memorial Funds (M.M.), Matthew Larson Foundation (M.M.), Ludwig Foundation (M.M.), Price Family Charitable Fund (M.M.), Child Health Research Institute at Stanford Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowed Faculty Scholarship in Pediatric Cancer and Blood Diseases (M.M.), Child Health Research Institute, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, as well as the Stanford CTSA, award number UL1 TR000093- (V.C.) and the Stanford University School of Medicine Dean’s Fellowship (V.C.). The authors thank Terri Haddix, Marilyn Masek, Beth Hoyte and Norm Cyr for their expert assistance.

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  1. Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

    Viola Caretti, Morgan Freret, Paul G. Fisher, Hannes Vogel & Michelle Monje

  2. Department of Pediatric Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Viola Caretti, Pepijn Schellen, Marc Jansen, Dannis van Vuurden, Gertjan Kaspers & Esther Hulleman

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Viola Caretti, Pepijn Schellen & Esther Hulleman

  4. Department of Neuro-Oncology Research Group, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Viola Caretti, Pepijn Schellen, Marc Jansen, Dannis van Vuurden, Esther Hulleman & Pieter Wesseling

  5. Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Marianna Bugiani & Pieter Wesseling

  6. Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Pieter Wesseling

  7. Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

    Hannes Vogel

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V. Caretti and M. Bugiani contributed equally.

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Caretti, V., Bugiani, M., Freret, M. et al. Subventricular spread of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. Acta Neuropathol 128, 605–607 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-014-1307-x

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