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Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
Giant-cell glioblastoma
Fibrillary astrocytoma
Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma
Brainstem glioma
Intraneural perineurioma
Pilocytic astrocytoma
Anaplastic astrocytoma