Exam 2 pathology Flashcards
What is the picture on the right and left? Describe abnormal histology and pathology
Left = normal brain tissue and normal brain histology
Right= infiltrative glioma, increased cellularity and decreased differentiation of junctions between gray and white matter
Grade each histology slide with WHO grading, what type of neoplasm are these?
gliomas
What is this
Glioma-anaplastic astrocytoma
white arrow = mitotic figure
What is this?
GBM ring enhancing butterfly lesion- crosses midline
What is this?
GBM ring enhancing lesion
What is this?
crosses midline at arrow
GBM- butterfly lesion
Charateristics of GBM
- VERY MALIGNANT (doesn’t metastasize)
- •Pseudopalisading necrosis, vascular proliferation
- poor prognosis (grade IV)
What is this?
GBM-Pseudopalisading Necrosis
What is this?
GBM-Vascular Cell Proliferation
What is this?? What is the treatment?
Primary CNS lymphoma
-atypical lymphocytes clustering around blood supply
Tx: Steroids
What is this? What part of the brain is it in?
pediatric- cyst with mural nodule (upper white part of cyst) in the posterior fossa
What is this?
Meningioma with chararistic dural tail
What is this?
Shwannoma-verocai bodies
-if on vestibular branch of CN 8= acoustic neuroma (bilateral=NF2)
What is this?
Schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) - affecting CN8 by entering auditory canal