CNS TUMOR PART 2 Flashcards
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Pilocytic astrocytoma
Is grade …
ageL .,…. and ……
It is the most common CNS neoplasm in childern
causing ,,,.,and,,,, symtopms
site in ,,,,,,,,,
Behavior is ……..and…..and……prognosis
Grade1
Children and young adults
Headache and ataxia
Cerebellum
3rd ventricle - spinal cord - cerebral hemispheres or Optic Nerve .
Bening slowly growing with good prognosis
Most common CNS neoplasm in children ?
Piocytic astrocytoma
Genetic profile of piloastrocytoma
BNM
1-Alteartions of BRAF
2- inactivation of Neurofibramatiosis type 1
3-Mitogen activated protein kinase pathway MAPK Path activated
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No IDH Mutation
describe pilocytic astrocytoma grossly
May be
1-Cystic with mural nodule in the wall of the cyst
or
2-Well cirumscribe solid mass
Rosenthal fibers appear in ?
Pilocytic astrocytoma
Pilocytic astrocytoma in microso ?
,,,,,,,,phasic pattern
,,,,,,BODIES
More often in loose regions
Necrosis and mistosi are raer
Low to moderate cellulari
Biphasic pattern
with Rosenthal fibers apperance
with Rosenthal fibers apperance stian + with
Glial fibrillary acid protien
Immature higly celleular
Higly mitotic active
- higly malignant
poorly differentiated neoplasms dissemiating along CSF “resembling Developing nervous system” and belongs to
“small round blue cell tumor “
Embryonal neoplams grade 4
grade 4
mention examples of embryonal neoplams
Medullablastoma
AT RT atypical teratoid Rhabdoid tumor
Embryonal tumor with multilayer rosettes
CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumor PNETs
Menignioma
Behavior ?
20% of all 1ry intracranial tumors
Usually SS?
Age ? sex?
grade?
benign
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Solitary - slowly growing
in female more in adults more
grade 1
Origin of Meniginoma ?
Arise from arachanoid meningothelial cells
Attached to dura
may extend to overlying bone
Ionizing radiation
Hormones
Menignoma sporadic and solitary common
Describe genetic profile
MCN
Merlin inactivation
+
Loss of one copy of Chormosome 22
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NF2 INCREASES THE Probability of Meningioma
prognosis depends on ?
Sixe - location - surgical accessibility and histological grade
describe gross picture of the menigioma
Greyish white
Well cirumscribed
Dura based
Hyperostosis
cut surface whorlly shaped
brain compression
Gritty sensation in cutting menigoma why?
Psammoma bodies
Mention micrpscopic types of Menigomas
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Synctial
Fibroblastic
transitonal
psammomtous
Synctial mengiona is ?
menngioma with cells in whorls and no cell membrane visible
Fibroblastic menigiona
Menigoma with elongated cells surrouned bundles of collagen