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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Marjan Khan M.B.B.S.[2]
Overview
The term glioblastoma multiforme was first coined by Percival Bailey and Harvey Cushing in 1926.[1]
Historical Perspective
- The term “glioma” was first introduced by Rudolf Virchow in 1864.
- The suffix multiforme was meant to describe the various appearances of hemorrhage, necrosis, and cysts.
- the first successful removal of a brain tumour is credited to the Scottish neurosurgeon Sir William Macewen in 1879.
- In 1922 Bailey and Cushing created a histological laboratory to examine Cushing’s collection of brain tumours found within his registry.
- In 1926 Percival Bailey and Harvey Cushing published “A Classification of the Tumors of the Glioma Group on a Histogenetic Basis with a Correlated Study of Prognosis” and the term “glioblastoma multiforme” (GBM) was coined.
- In 1940 neuropathologist Hans-Joachim Scherer made distinction between primary and secondary GBMs.
- Initially known as “spongioblastoma multiforme”, Bailey and Cushing adopted the term glioblastoma to limit confusion.
- In 1976 the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) was created by the WHO for recording the incidence of malignancy and survival.
- In 1993, GBM was removed from its original category and placed in the spectrum of “Astrocytic Tumours” and is classed as WHO grade IV astrocytoma.
- The WHO classification dropped the term multiforme and thus it is best referred as glioblastoma or grade IV astrocytoma.
References
- ↑ Terminology of glioblastoma multiforme. Dr Dylan Kurda and Dr Frank Gaillard et al. Radiopaedia 2015. http://radiopaedia.org/articles/glioblastoma