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What are the categories of CNS neoplasms (6)?

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  • Glial neoplasms
  • Meningiomas
  • Ependymoma
  • Medulloblastoma
  • CNS lymphoma
  • Metastasis
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What are the 4 types of neuroglia in the CNS?

What do each do?

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  • ependymal cells (line ventricles and central panel of spinal cord)
  • oligodendrocytes (myelinate)
  • astrocytes (support, metabolic function, glutamate neurotransmision, calcium homeostasis)
  • microglia (macrophages of CNS)
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What are the 2 types of neuroglia in the PNS? What do each do?

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Satellite cells

Schwann cells

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How can you tell an astrocyte from an oligodendrocyte?

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Astrocytes-> loose chromatin (cause they are actively transcribing genes)
Oligodendrocytes-> dense chromatin

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(blank) are the most common CNS tumors.

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astrocytomas (70-80%)

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Astrocytomas usually involve the (Blank) hemispheres, but can occur elsewhere

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cerebral

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How do you grade astrocytomas?

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Grade 1-4

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What grade is a glioblastsoma multiforme?

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Grade 4

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What grade is diffusely infiltrating astrocytoma?

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Grade 2

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What grade is anaplastic astrocytoma?

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Grade 3

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What grade is pilocytic astrocytoma?

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Grade 1

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What grade is a pilocytic astrocytoma?
What does it look like?
Is it malignant or benign?
Who typically gets them?
Where do you usually find them?
Is there a p53 mutation?
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1
well circumscribed and cystic
benign
children and young adults
cerebellum (but can occur elsewhere)
-no
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What is the histological appearance of a pilocytic astrocytoma?

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  • Dense, “hair-like” fibrillary meshworks.

- rosenthal fibers

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What does a pilocytic astrocytoma look like on a sagittal CT?

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cystic space with mural nodule

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What grade is a diffusely infiltrating astrocytoma?
What does it look like?
Does it have a p53 mutation?
What is its prognosis?
Does it have mitotic figures?
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  • II
  • poorly defined, infiltrating tumor with increased cellularity with mild to moderate nuclear atypia
  • YES
  • variable, but usually indolent lesion
  • no
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What grade is anaplastic astrocytoma?
What does it look like?
Does it have mitotic figures?
What is the median survival?
Does it have a p53 mutation?
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  • III
  • similiar to grade II, but with increased, cellularity and nuclear atypia
  • YES
  • 3 years
  • yes
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What grade is glioblastoma mutiforme?
Is it common?
Is it aggressive?
What does it look like?
Is  p53 mutation common?
What is the prognosis?
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IV
yes
-highly aggressive
-marked nuclear pleomorphism and atypia
-yes
-6-15 month survival
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If you see pseudopalisating necrosis, what kind of glial neoplasm is this?

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glioblatoma multiforme

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What is the mneumonic for glial neoplasms and what does it tell us?

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Atypia
Mitotic figures
Endothelial proliferation
Necrosis

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Most glial neoplasms dont cross the midline but (blank) do.

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glioblastoma multiformis

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What grade is an oligodendroglioma?
What percent of gliomas are oligodendroglioma?
What age do you get oligodendrogliomas?

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II
5-15%
4th-5th decades

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Where do you see oligodendrogliomas and what would you describe them as?

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-cerebral hemispheres (FRONTAL LOBE)

Infiltrating, cystic, hemorrhagic, frequent CALCIFICATIONS

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What genes are associated with a good response to chemo/radiation with oligodendrogliomas?

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Oligodendrogliomas can be what grades?

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II, III, IV

no such thing as a grade I

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What can oligodendrogliomas often present with?
seizures
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What is the histological appearance of oligodendrogliomas?
fried egg appearance with chicken wire vasculature
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Are meningiomas present in adults or children? What kind of receptors do they commonly have? Are the benign or malignant?
adults estrogen/progesterone benign
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What chromosome loss is associated with meningiomas?
loss of chromosome 22
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What can meningiomas form in the dura and why is this dangerus?
Can form mass in dura that presses on cortex and induces seizures
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What is the histological appearance of meningiomas?
looks like starry night and has Psammoma bodies (whirled pattern of growth)
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Where can you get meningiomas?
- parasagital - olfactory groove - supraseller - clivus - foramen magnum - cerebellar
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Where do ependymomas derive from? Who gets them? What disease is associated with it?
ependymal cells lining ventricular system - children and adults - NF2
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Where do you most commonly see ependymomas in people ages 0-20?
4th ventricle
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Where do you most commonly see ependymomas in adults?
spinal cord
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What do ependymomas present as histologically?
pseudorosets and rosets
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Who does medulloblastomas present in, children or adults? What are medulloblastomas derived from? What genes are associated with medulloblastoma and what do they indicate? Is it suscpetible to radiation?
- children - neuroectoderm and granular cells of cerebellum - 17p and MYC amplification... aggressive and poor prognosis - yes
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How do medulloblastomas present histologically?
as small round blue cell tumors w/ homer-writght rosettes (look like suns)
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What protein is present in medulloblastomas?
GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein)
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If you see a child with a tumor in the cerebellum, what should you be thinking?
either its malignant and its medulloblastoma or its benign and its a pilocytic astrocytoma
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(blank) typically have supratentorial tumors. | (blank) typically have infratentorial tumors.
adults | children
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What virus is asociated with High grade B cell lymphoma?
EBV
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(blank) percent of extranodal lymphomas are primary CNS lymphomas (blank) percent of intracranial tumors are primary CNS lymphomas.
2% | 1%
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Are primary CNS lymphomas typically multifocal or unifocal?
multifocal
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What is a good marker for primary CNS lymphoma? What does this tell us?
BCL-6+ says tumor cells are B cells that are derived from the germinal center of a lymphoid follicle
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Where do primary CNS lymphomas typically occur first?
perivascularly
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How can you look for EBV in your primary CNS lymphoma?
with EBER and ISH
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What do lymphomas look like histologically?
dishesive and around vasculature
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What is the MOST common CNS malignancy?
metastases
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What are the most common carcinomas associated with CNS malignancy?
1. lung 2. breast 3. melanoma 4. RCC 5. GI
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Metastases make up (blank) percent of all intracranial malignancy
50%
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T or F | brain tumors are relatively rare compared to other cancers that metastasize to the brain
T

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