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We describe CT and MRI appearances in two children with pathologically proven gliofibromas, in the cerebrum and cerebellum. A striking finding was lack of high signal on T2-weighted MRI.
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Caldemeyer, K.S., Zimmerman, R.A., Azzarelli, B. et al. Gliofibroma: CT and MRI. Neuroradiology 37, 481–485 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00600101
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