Primary Brain Tumors

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introductory Remarks

      • I. Leslie, E. Sobin

      Pages 1-2

3. Embryonal Tumors of the Neuroectoderm

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor - A Concept Requiring an Apologia?

      • Lucy Balian Rorke

      Pages 5-15

   3. Justification for a Cytogenetic Scheme of Embryonal Central Neuroepithelial Tumors

      • Lucien J. Rubinstein

      Pages 16-46

   4. Classification of Pediatric Tumors - Alternative Strategies

      • Floyd Gilles

      Pages 47-58

   5. Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors: Views on a Working Classification

      • Laurence E. Becker

      Pages 59-69

   6. Phenotyplc Analysis of Medulloblastoma with Monoclonal Antibodies

      • Darell Bigner

      Pages 70-81

   7. Pinealomas: Need for an Ultrastructural Diagnosis

      • Jacques Hassoun, Danielle Gambarelli

      Pages 82-90

4. Malignant Glial Tumors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Can Cytogenetic and Molecular Genetic Analyses of Malignant Human Gliomas Be Used Yet To Supplement Conventional Classification Schemes?

      • Darell D. Bigner, B. Vogelstein, S. H. Bigner

      Pages 117-122

   3. Immunohistochemical Assessment of Differentiation and DNA Replication in Human Brain Tumors

      • P. Kleihues, A. Aguzzi, T. Shibata, O. D. Wiestler

      Pages 123-132

   4. Application of Immunohistochemistry for Tumor Grading in Human Neuro-Oncology

      • Wolfgang Wechsler, Guido Reifenberger

      Pages 133-142

   5. Monstrocellular Sarcomas

      • Klaus J. Zülch

      Pages 148-149

   6. Grading of Gliomas

      • Richard L. Davis

      Pages 150-158

   7. A New Uniform Grading System (Using Mayo Clinic Material)

      • Catherine Daumas-Duport

      Pages 159-170

   8. The Grading of Astrocytomas and Oligodendrogliomas

      • Peter C. Burger

      Pages 171-180

   9. Grading of Brain Tumors According to the WHO Classification: Applicability to Clinical Medicine

      • Jean-Marie Brucher

      Pages 181-190

   10. Clinical Correlations of Malignant Ependymomas

       • Lucien J. Rubinstein

       Pages 191-213

5. Meningiomas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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This volume represents the formal presentations and discussions which took place during a three-day meeting in March 1988 at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. It is" dedicated to my friend of more than thirty years, Prof. Dr. Klaus Joachim Ziilch, who died in Berlin on December 2. 1988 while this volume was still in preparation. Klaus Zulch had devoted a significant portion of his professional life to a better understanding of central nervous tumors. Over the past two decades he served as the Director of the Collaborating Center for CNS Tumors, under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), and it was largely through his efforts that the work of the CelJ. ter in developing criteria for a histologic classification of these neoplasms was kept alive. Without his stimulus this Houston meeting would probably not have taken place. In early 1987 he approached me with the idea of convening, at an early date, a meeting in Houston in collaboration with the Department of Neuro-Oncology of the Cancer Center, of which I was then Chairman. The purpose of this proposed meeting was to discuss recent research developments that might have a profound influence on the classification of brain tumors and ultimately necessitate revision of the "Blue Book" of the WHO on Histological Typing 0/ Tumours 0/ the Central Nervous System.

• Geschwulst
• Hirngeschwulst
• Nervous System
• Pathologische Histologie
• brain
• brain tumor
• brain tumors
• cancer
• classification
• embryo
• histology
• oncology
• tumor

• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, USA

  William S. Fields

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