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Historical Perspective

• Astrocytoma were 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