A hemangeopericytoma (HPC) is a type of soft tissue sarcoma that originates in the pericytes in the walls of capillaries. When inside the nervous system although not strictly a meningioma tumor it is a meningeal tumor with a special aggressive behavior. It was first characterized in 1942.
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