What happens after brain tissue dies?
We talk a lot about strokes in a clinical way in medical school. We discuss which areas of the brain are involved, and we correlate the areas damaged with the patient’s symptoms. (more…)
We talk a lot about strokes in a clinical way in medical school. We discuss which areas of the brain are involved, and we correlate the areas damaged with the patient’s symptoms. (more…)
I’m happy to announce a new book in our Study Guide family: Anatomic Pathology Student Compendium. (more…)
Q. I’m studying for boards and came across a point of confusion. (more…)
Metastatic lesions are pretty common in the brain. If you look at all brain tumors in hospitalized patients, about 25% – 50% are metastatic tumors. (more…)
While nobody wants to get a brain tumor, if you had to pick one, meningioma would be a good choice. (more…)
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.
Today we’ll talk about the last glioma: ependymoma.
Moving on in our in our brain tumor series (check out the overview, astrocytoma, and pilocytic astrocytoma posts), today we’ll talk about oligodendroglioma. (more…)
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). (more…)
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