What is dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor?

Also known as: DNT, DNET, ganglioglioma.

Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors are rare, slow growing, non-spreading growths (benign), found in children (average age 9 years old; boys more often than girls) and teens, that develop from different types of abnormal central nervous system brain cells. They are most often found in the part of the brain that controls thought, movement and sensation, and rarely in the spinal cord.

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Reviewed by: Jack Wolfsdorf, MD, FAAP

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