Extraspinal sacrococcygeal myxopapillary ependymoma in a teenager

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Minchong Kim (Department of Pathology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine) ;
Mi Jin Gu (Department of Pathology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine)

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