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Limitations of the World Health Organization classification of childhood supratentorial astrocytic tumors

✍ Scribed by Floyd H. Gilles; William D. Brown; Alan Leviton; C. Jane Tavaré; Lester Adelman; Lucy B. Rorke; Richard L. Davis; Tessa E. Hedley-Whyte; for the Childhood Brain Tumor Consortium

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 86 KB
Volume: 88
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(20000315)88:6<1477::aid-cncr28>3.0.co;2-8

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✦ Synopsis

In the context of many implied but not rigorously stated histologic feature combinations, the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of astrocytic tumors specifies only the presence or absence of endothelial proliferation, necrosis, and mitosis to distinguish astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, and glioblastoma multiforme.

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