neoplasia | Pathology Student

Dysplasia in Barrett Esophagus

Q. Do you always see dysplasia in Barrett esophagus?

A. Good question! No, you don’t always see dysplasia. You worry about it, but most of the time you don’t see it. (more…)

Brain metastases: sometimes the first sign of a tumor

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…)

Meningioma: solitary, slow-growing, surgery works.

While nobody wants to get a brain tumor, if you had to pick one, meningioma would be a good choice. (more…)

Primary CNS lymphoma: a tumor that preys on the immunosuppressed

Here’s another primary CNS tumor that arises in the brain parenchyma: primary CNS lymphoma.

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Medulloblastoma: a nasty tumor with a silver lining

Today, we’ll move on to a new group of tumors of the CNS now: poorly-differentiated tumors.

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Ependymoma: Danger in the fourth ventricle

Today we’ll talk about the last glioma: ependymoma. (more…)

Oligodendroglioma: -1p + -19q = good prognosis

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…)

Pilocytic astrocytoma: the astrocytoma with good manners

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…)

Astrocytoma: the most common adult brain tumor

We’ll start out our little series on brain tumors with astrocytomas, the most common type of brain tumor in adults (accounting for 80% of all primary brain tumors in adults). (more…)