Brain Tumor Pathology: Current Diagnostic Hotspots and Pitfalls

• Main Author: Schiffer, Davide (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Biomedicine general.

Since Bailey and Cushing (1926), all brain tumor classifications have been called histogenetic. The nosographic position that the tumor types progressively acquired in the classification systems derived from the resemblance of tumor cells to those of the cytogenesis, modified whenever new informatio...

Table of Contents:

• The Origin of Gliomas in Relation to the Histological Diagnosis
• Molecular Genetics Outline of Brain Tumors
• General Remarks
• Astrocytic Tumors I
• Astrocytic Tumors II
• Oligodendroglial Tumors
• Ependymal Tumors
• Neuronal and Mixed Glio-Neural Tumors I
• Neuronal and Mixed Glio-Neural Tumors II
• Peculiar Tumors
• Cell Migration and Invasion
• Apoptosis
• The Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
• Angiogenesis
• Meningiomas.