Today we’ll do another little unknown case. You can find our other cases here:
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have a safe and fun New Year’s Eve…and a peaceful and happy 2013.
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Rosettes are little round groupings of cells found in tumors. They usually consist of cells in a spoke-wheel or halo arrangement surrounding a central, acellular region.
Metastatic lesions are pretty common in the brain. If you look at all brain tumors in hospitalized patients, about 25% – 50% are metastatic tumors.
While nobody wants to get a brain tumor, if you had to pick one, meningioma would be a good choice.
Here’s another primary CNS tumor that arises in the brain parenchyma: primary CNS lymphoma.
Today, we’ll move on to a new group of tumors of the CNS now: poorly-differentiated tumors.
Moving on in our in our brain tumor series (check out the overview, astrocytoma, and pilocytic astrocytoma posts), today we’ll talk about oligodendroglioma.
In case you just joined us, we’re doing a series on brain tumors (so far we’ve had an overview and a look at astrocytoma).
