Central Nervous System Neoplasm
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- brain neoplasm (intracranial neoplasm)
- capillary hemangioblastoma
- CNS cyst
- craniopharyngioma
- meningeal neoplasm
- neuroepithelial neoplasm (includes glial, pineal, choroid plexus, ganglion cell neoplasms and others)
- pituitary neoplasm
- primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma (PCNSL)
- primary intracranial germ cell neoplasm
- primary melanocytic CNS lesion
- spinal cord neoplasm
Introduction
- Primary central nervous system neoplasms, intra- and extra- axial.
Classification
- of brain/ spinal cord tumors
- neuroepithelial tumors
- glial tumors (45%)
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- pilocytic astrocytoma.
- diffuse astrocytoma ( fibrillary, protoplasmic, gemistocytic).
- anaplastic astrocytoma.
- glioblastoma
- oligodendroglial
- oligoastrocytoma
- malignant oligoastrocytoma
- ependymal tumors
- ependymoma ( cellular, papillary, clear cell, tanycytic)
- anaplastic ependymoma
- myxopapillary ependymoma
- subependymoma
- glial tumors of unceratin origin
- neuronal/mixed neuronal- glial tumors
- gangliocytoma
- ganglioglioma
- desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma/ ganglioglioma
- dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor
- central neurocytoma
- cerebellar liponeurocytoma
- paraganglioma
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- large cell
- nedullomyoblastoma
- melanotic
- medulloepithelioma
- supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor ( PNET) 1]. neuroblastoma
- meningioma (27%)
- mesenchymal non- meningeal tumors
- melanocytic lesions
- tumors of the sellar region
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- adamantinomatous
- papillary
- pituitary adenoma (10%)
- pituitary carcinoma
- granular cell tumor
- primary lymphomas and hematopoietic neoplasms (4%) A. lymphoma B. plasmacytoma C. granulocytic sarcoma
- peripheral nervous system tumors (some can also affect CNS)
- schwannoma (7%)
- neurofibroma
- malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
- See also: metastatic tumors
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