- Central Nervous System Tumours (5th ed.)
- 1. Forewords and Introductions
WHO Classification of Tumours: Editorial Board
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Foreword with changes from the book, including corrigenda
ICD-O coding of CNS tumours
Introduction to CNS tumours
- 2. Gliomas, glioneuronal tumours, and neuronal tumours
Gliomas, glioneuronal tumours, and neuronal tumours: Introduction
Gliomas, glioneuronal tumours, and neuronal tumours
Adult-type diffuse gliomas
Astrocytoma, IDH-mutant
Oligodendroglioma, IDH-mutant and 1p/19q-codeleted
Glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype
Paediatric-type diffuse low-grade gliomas
Diffuse astrocytoma, MYB- or MYBL1-altered
Angiocentric glioma
Polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumour of the young
Diffuse low-grade glioma, MAPK pathway-altered
Paediatric-type diffuse high-grade gliomas
Diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27-altered
Diffuse hemispheric glioma, H3 G34-mutant
Diffuse paediatric-type high-grade glioma, H3-wildtype and IDH-wildtype
Infant-type hemispheric glioma
Circumscribed astrocytic gliomas
Pilocytic astrocytoma
High-grade astrocytoma with piloid features
Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma
Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma
Chordoid glioma
Astroblastoma, MN1-altered
Glioneuronal and neuronal tumours
Ganglioglioma
Gangliocytoma
Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma / desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma
Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour
Diffuse glioneuronal tumour with oligodendroglioma-like features and nuclear clusters
Papillary glioneuronal tumour
Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumour
Myxoid glioneuronal tumour
Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumour
Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumour
Dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease)
Central neurocytoma
Extraventricular neurocytoma
Cerebellar liponeurocytoma
Ependymal tumours
Ependymal tumours: Introduction
Supratentorial ependymoma
Supratentorial ependymoma, ZFTA fusion-positive
Supratentorial ependymoma, YAP1 fusion-positive
Posterior fossa ependymoma
Posterior fossa group A (PFA) ependymoma
Posterior fossa group B (PFB) ependymoma
Spinal ependymoma
Spinal ependymoma, MYCN-amplified
Myxopapillary ependymoma
Subependymoma
- 3. Choroid plexus tumours
Choroid plexus papilloma
Atypical choroid plexus papilloma
Choroid plexus carcinoma
- 4. Embryonal tumours
Medulloblastoma
Medulloblastoma: Introduction
Medulloblastomas, molecularly defined
Medulloblastoma, WNT-activated
Medulloblastoma, SHH-activated and TP53-wildtype
Medulloblastoma, SHH-activated and TP53-mutant
Medulloblastoma, non-WNT/non-SHH
Medulloblastomas, histologically defined
Medulloblastoma, histologically defined
Other CNS embryonal tumours
Other CNS embryonal tumours: Introduction
Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumour
Cribriform neuroepithelial tumour
Embryonal tumour with multilayered rosettes
CNS neuroblastoma, FOXR2-activated
CNS tumour with BCOR internal tandem duplication
CNS embryonal tumour NEC/NOS
- 5. Pineal tumours
Pineal tumours: Introduction
Pineocytoma
Pineal parenchymal tumour of intermediate differentiation
Pineoblastoma
Papillary tumour of the pineal region
Desmoplastic myxoid tumour of the pineal region, SMARCB1-mutant
- 6. Cranial and paraspinal nerve tumours
Cranial and paraspinal nerve tumours: Introduction
Schwannoma
Neurofibroma
Perineurioma
Hybrid nerve sheath tumours
Malignant melanotic nerve sheath tumour
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour
Cauda equina neuroendocrine tumour (previously paraganglioma)
- 7. Meningioma
Meningioma
- 8. Mesenchymal, non-meningothelial tumours involving the CNS
Mesenchymal, non-meningothelial tumours involving the CNS: Introduction
Soft tissue tumours
Fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumours
Solitary fibrous tumour
Vascular tumours
Haemangiomas and vascular malformations
Haemangioblastoma
Skeletal muscle tumours
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Tumours of uncertain differentiation
Intracranial mesenchymal tumour, FET::CREB fusion-positive
CIC-rearranged sarcoma
Primary intracranial sarcoma, DICER1-mutant
Ewing sarcoma
Chondro-osseous tumours
Chondrogenic tumours
Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma
Chondrosarcoma
Notochordal tumours
Chordoma
- 9. Melanocytic tumours
Melanocytic tumours: Introduction
Diffuse meningeal melanocytic neoplasms
Diffuse meningeal melanocytic neoplasms: Melanocytosis and melanomatosis
Circumscribed meningeal melanocytic neoplasms
Circumscribed meningeal melanocytic neoplasms: Melanocytoma and melanoma
- 10. Haematolymphoid tumours involving the CNS
Haematolymphoid tumours involving the CNS: Introduction
Lymphomas
CNS lymphomas
Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the CNS
Immunodeficiency-associated CNS lymphomas
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma
Miscellaneous rare lymphomas in the CNS
MALT lymphoma of the dura
Other low-grade B-cell lymphomas of the CNS
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALK+/ALK−)
T-cell and NK/T-cell lymphomas
Histiocytic tumours
Erdheim-Chester disease
Rosai-Dorfman disease
Juvenile xanthogranuloma
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Histiocytic sarcoma
- 11. Germ cell tumours
Germ cell tumours of the CNS
- 12. Tumours of the sellar region
Tumours of the sellar region: Introduction (number corrected was 12.0.0.1)
Adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma
Papillary craniopharyngioma
Pituicytoma, granular cell tumour of the sellar region, and spindle cell oncocytoma
Pituitary adenoma / pituitary neuroendocrine tumour
Pituitary blastoma
- 13. Metastases to the CNS
Metastases to the brain and spinal cord parenchyma
Metastases to the meninges
- 14. Genetic tumour syndromes involving the CNS
Genetic tumour syndromes of the nervous system: Introduction
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Neurofibromatosis type 2
Schwannomatosis
Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
Tuberous sclerosis
Li-Fraumeni syndrome
Cowden syndrome
Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome
Familial adenomatous polyposis 1
Naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
Rhabdoid tumour predisposition syndrome
Carney complex
DICER1 syndrome
Familial paraganglioma syndromes
Melanoma-astrocytoma syndrome
Familial retinoblastoma
BAP1 tumour predisposition syndrome
Fanconi anaemia
ELP1-medulloblastoma syndrome