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type of tumor with fried egg appearance on path AND microcalcifications sometimes evident on CT

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oligodendroglioma

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type of primary CNS tumor most likely to have evidence of dissemination in CSF

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Grade III ependymoma

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mutation in grade II/III astrocytomas (2 possible)

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p53 mutation and IDH1 mutations

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most common site of ependymomas

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often off lining of ventricles in posterior fossa

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mutation that predicts favorable response to DNA damaging chemos in oligodendrogliomas

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1p19q loss of heterozygosity

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chemo for GBM

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temozolamide

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rosettes with microlumina and pseudorosettes

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think ependymoma

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small round blue cells sometimes in rosettes

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medulloblastoma

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type of tumor for medulloblastoma

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PNET: primitive neuroectodermal tumors

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Types of PNET / small round blue cell tumors

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All grade IV

  • medulloblastoma
  • supratentorial PNET
  • pineoblastoma
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poor prognosis for medulloblastoma

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young children < 3 yrs

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vermian tumor in cerebellum in kid is likely what

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medulloblastoma

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treatment for CNS lymphoma

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methotrexate based regimen

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MRI features of lymphoma CNS

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diffusely enhancing and crosses corpus callosum

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Bcell vs Tcell markers on path

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Bcell: CD20
TCell: CD3

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Restricted diffusion in non-stroke

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lymphoma or abscess

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pituitary tumor with cystic components containing motor-oil like fluid

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adamantinous craniopharyngioma

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2 types of craniopharyngioma

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  1. squamous papillary - solid
  2. **Adamantinous cystic: with motor oil
    (From Rathke’s cyst remnants)
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where do meningiomas arise from

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extraaxial, from arachnoid cells

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dural tail

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meningioma

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loss of chromosome 22 found in what kind of tumor

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meningioma

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whorls on pathology

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meningioma

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two types of pineal parenchymal tumors and major other types?

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parenchymal:
1. pineoblastoma grade IV (like medulloblastoma, bad behavior, spreads w/ CSF and can occur w/ b/l retinoblastoma)
2. pineocytoma grade I very slow growing
3. germ cell tumors: germinomas and everything else

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what tumor might you see in conjunction with b/l retinoblastoma

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pineoblastoma

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Typical treatment of germinoma / pineal tumor treatment

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germinoma type is VERY sensitive to RT and chemo, so no surgery.

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areas of closely and loosely packed tumor (2)

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  1. JPA

2. schwannoma

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nerve most commonly involved in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor and what does it most likely arise from

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sciatic plexiform neurofibromas

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tx for SEGA in TS?

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everolimus (mtor inhibitor)

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cauliflower looking lesion in posterior fossa

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choroid plexus papilloma

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well circumscribed posterior fossa mass

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ependymoma

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single histology most common pedi brain tumor and group of brain tumors

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medulloblastoma or glioma/all comers

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voltage gated K channel Abs can cause what

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neuromyotomia, seizures, limbic encephalitis

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ab in stiff person syndrome

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anti GAD from breast cancer or SCLC

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most common brain met

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axonal peripheral neuropathy - two main chemos

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vincristine, taxanes

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chemo causing cerebral edema

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cisplatin (give with mannitol and steroids)

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drug used for GBM and s/e

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temozolamide

marrow suppression, n/v, constipation

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drug used for recurrent GBM and s/e

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bevacizumab

-bleeding, clotting, incr BP, urine protein

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drug for oligodendroglioma that causes neuropathy, constipation, myelosuppression

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vincristine

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drug that can cause a leukoencephalopathy similar to NPH

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methotrexate

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cancers assoc w/ anti voltage gated K channels

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SCLC thymoma

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brain mets likely to bleed

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melanoma, renal cell, chorioca, thyroid ca

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most common histological primary brain tumor

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meningioma

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what is the course of a pilocytic astrocytoma / JPA

what path and MRI features

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grade I, can be surgically resected
Path: Rosenthal fibers
MRI: enhancing, well circumscribed

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Grade II/III astrocytomas often with what mutation

enhancing?

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p53

Grade II rarely enhance, grade III may

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what grade is a SEGA

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three types of glial cells / gliomas

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  1. astrocytoma
  2. oligodendroglioma
  3. ependymoma
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path features of juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma (2)
MRI features (1)
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1 Rosenthal fibers
2. GFAP +

  1. MRI: cyst with mural nodule
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cyst with mural nodule in kid vs adult

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kid: JPA
adult: hemangioblastoma and von hippel lindau

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special cyst with mural nodule in temporal lobe and with seizure that aren’t quite JPA

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pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (Grade II)

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two tumors that butterfly across the corpus callosum

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GBM or lymphoma

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calcifications, perinuclear halos on path, delicate vessels

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oligodendroglioma: fried egg/ chicken wire vessels

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most common primary brain tumor to bleed

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oligodendroglioma: think of fragile vessels / chicken wire

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most common spinal cord glioma

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ependymoma

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spinal cord tumor arising from filum terminale?

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myxopapillary ependymoma

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perivascular pseudorosettes

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ependymoma

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whorls, psammoma bodies,

desmosomes on EM

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meningioma

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chromosome associated with meningiomas

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merlin chr 22 loss: monosomy 22 (think NF2, chr 22, many meningiomas)

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what are the high grade meningiomas? (5)

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atypical, clear cell, choroid, rhabdoid, anaplastic

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most common supratentorial tumor in childhood

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craniopharyngioma

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atypical teratoid / rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) are assoc w/ what genetics?

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partial loss of ch22 or LOH of chr 22

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rosette with central lumen (name and tumor)

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true: flexner-wintersteiner in retinoblastoma

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rosette with cytoplasmic process in center - name and tumor

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homer wright

-medulloblastoma neuroblastoma

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perivascular rosette

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pseudorosette, ependymoma

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type of brain tumor in this syndrome

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Cowden’s syndrome: multiple hamartomas:

Lhermitte Duclos: dysplastic gangliocytoma of cerebellum

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type of brain tumor in this syndrome

Gorlin’s syndrome

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Nevoid basal cell cardinoma syndrome: medulloblastoma

MED GORY

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Li-Fraumeni syndrome

type of brain tumor in this syndrome

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p53 tumor disease: diffuse astrocytomas

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type of brain tumor in this syndrome

Turcot’s syndrome

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GBM or medulloblastoma

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The disease most assoc w/ paraneoplastic syndromes

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amphiphisin antibody causes what and is assoc w/ what cancers

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stiff person syndrome / encephalomyelitis

SCLC, breast

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Anti-Hu assoc w/ what dz

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SCLC smokers get SCLC and Hugh Hefner smokes

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Hodgkins assoc w/ what antibody/paraneoplastic syndrome

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Tr: cerebellar degeneration (Trip due to cerebellar)

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cerebellar degeneration caused by anti-Yo Abs in what cancer?

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breast, ovary (Yo mamma)

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anti-Ta from what cancer, what syndrome

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limbic encephalitis / brainstem dysfunction in testicular cancer

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ataxia, opsoclonus/myoclonus, brainstem encephalitis with what Ab and what cancer

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anti-Ri in breast, gyne, SCLC

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chemo causing stroke/central venous thrombosis

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aspariginase

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chemo making you have SIADH/psych sx

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cyclophosphamide

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chemo causing arachnoiditis and cerebellar dysfunction

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ARA-C (ARAchnoiditis, Cerebellar), and also seizures (ARA_Czur)

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PRES / reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy caused by what chemo

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most common tumor of pineal gland

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most common neural crest derived tumor of sacrum

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