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Overview
Historical Perspective
- Astrocytoma was the first glioma tumors to be described.
- Astrocytoma was first explained as glioma duram by Virchow in 1840.
- Astrocytoma was decribed as spider cell glioma by T.Simon in 1874.
- Astrocytoma was also described as astroma by M von Lenhossek in 1895.
- Other names given earlier were as follows.
- Amoebiod giant cell glioma in 1918 by O Lotmar.
- Fibrillary, protoplasmic astrocytoma and astroblastoma in 1926 by Baley and Cushing
- Afibrillary and gigantocellular astrocytoma in 1932 by Roussy and Oberling
- Piloid, gemistocytic and diffuse astrocytoma in 1932 by Penfield [1]
- Cerebellar astrocytoma was first described by Harvey Cushing in 1931.[2]
- Histological description of astrocytoma was first given by Bergstrand in 1932.[3]
References
- ↑ lch, Klaus (1986). Brain Tumors Their Biology and Pathology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-68180-6.
- ↑ Collins VP, Jones DT, Giannini C (2015). "Pilocytic astrocytoma: pathology, molecular mechanisms and markers". Acta Neuropathol. 129 (6): 775–88. doi:10.1007/s00401-015-1410-7. PMC 4436848. PMID 25792358.
- ↑ lch, Klaus (1986). Brain Tumors Their Biology and Pathology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-68178-3.