Adult Primary Brain Tumors

Question 1

Butterfly Glioma

Answer 1

Glioblastoma Multiforme, when it crosses corpus callosum

Question 2

Pseudopalisading pleomorphic tumor cells that border necrosis and hemorrhage

Answer 2

Glioblastoma Multiforme

Question 3

Spindle cells in whorled pattern, psamomma bodies

Answer 3

Meningioma

Question 4

Brain tumor in cerebral hemisphere (+) GFAP

Answer 4

Glioblastoma Multiforme

Question 5

Brain tumor arising from arachnoid cells, is external to prain parenchyma

Answer 5

meningioma

Question 6

brain tumor near surface of brain and parasagittal region

Answer 6

Meningioma

Question 7

Brain tumor associated with von Hippel-Lindau

Answer 7

Hemangioblastoma

Question 8

Brain tumor that can produce erythropoietin

Answer 8

hemangioblastoma

Question 9

Cerebellopontine angle

Answer 9

Schwannoma

Question 10

BL acoustic Schwannoma

Answer 10

Neurofibromatosis Type 2

Question 11

S-100 (+) often localized to CN VIII

Answer 11

Schwannoma

Question 12

Brain tumor most often in frontal lobes

Answer 12

Oligodendroglioma

Question 13

Chicken-wire capillary pattern, “fried egg” cells

Answer 13

Oligodendroglioma