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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Fahimeh Shojaei, M.D.
Overview
Astrocytoma may be classified according to its histology into 4 grades: pilocytic astrocytoma, diffuse astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma multiforme.
Classification
| Astrocytoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Low grade | High grade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pilocyic astrocytoma | Diffuse astrocytoma | Anaplastic astrocytoma | Glioblastomas multiform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fibrillary astrocytoma | Gemistocytic astrocytoma | Protoplasmic astrocytoma | Oligoastrocytoma | Primary glioblastoma multiforme | Secondary glioblastoma multiforme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Low-grade astrocytoma may be classified based on tumor spread into four subtypes including:
| Low-grade astrocytoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Localized low-grade astrocytoma | Low-grade infiltrative astrocytoma Diffuse astrocytoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WHO grade I / II | WHO grade II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fibrillary astrocytoma | Gemistocytic astrocytoma | Protoplasmic astrocytoma | Oligoastrocytoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pilocytic astrocytoma | Pilomyxoid astrocytoma | Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma | Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WHO grade I | WHO grade II | WHO grade I | WHO grade II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ Daumas-Duport C, Scheithauer B, O'Fallon J, Kelly P (November 1988). "Grading of astrocytomas. A simple and reproducible method". Cancer. 62 (10): 2152–65. PMID 3179928.
- ↑ Louis DN, Perry A, Reifenberger G, von Deimling A, Figarella-Branger D, Cavenee WK, Ohgaki H, Wiestler OD, Kleihues P, Ellison DW (June 2016). "The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary". Acta Neuropathol. 131 (6): 803–20. doi:10.1007/s00401-016-1545-1. PMID 27157931.