A girl of 12 with a pontine polymorphous astrocytoma diffusely metastasizing to the spinal cord leptomeninges suddenly died 20 hours after the insertion of a right ventriculo–atrial shunt. Many severely damaged glial neoplastic cells were found in the blood vessels of the lung and liver.
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