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Certain tumours like to hang-out at certain places:<ref>URL: [http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/files/4ce563fb7e8e48fc9ed8b42e296a7747.gif http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/files/4ce563fb7e8e48fc9ed8b42e296a7747.gif] and [http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/sid117213.html http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/sid117213.html]. Accessed on: 2 November 2010.</ref>
Certain tumours like to hang-out at certain places:<ref>URL: [http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/files/4ce563fb7e8e48fc9ed8b42e296a7747.gif http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/files/4ce563fb7e8e48fc9ed8b42e296a7747.gif] and [http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/sid117213.html http://www.msdlatinamerica.com/ebooks/DiagnosticNeuropathologySmears/sid117213.html]. Accessed on: 2 November 2010.</ref>
*Cerebrum:
*Cerebrum:
**Cortical based - oligodendroglioma.
**Cortical based - [[oligodendroglioma]].
**Grey-white junction - metastases.
**Grey-white junction - metastases.
**White matter - astrocytoma, glioblastoma.
**White matter - astrocytoma, [[glioblastoma]].
**Periventricular - CNS lymphoma.
**Periventricular - CNS lymphoma.
**Cystic - ganglioglioma, pilocytic astrocytoma, pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma.
**Cystic - [[ganglioglioma]], [[pilocytic astrocytoma]], [[pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma]].
*Cerebellum:
*Cerebellum:
**Midline/central - medulloblastoma.
**Midline/central - [[medulloblastoma]].
**Cystic lesion - pilocytic astrocytoma (younger individual), hemangioblastoma (older individual).
**Cystic lesion - pilocytic astrocytoma (younger individual), [[hemangioblastoma]] (older individual).
**Solid lesion (older individual) - metastasis.
**Solid lesion (older individual) - metastasis.
*Spinal cord:
*Spinal cord:
**Ependymoma, glioblastoma.
**[[Ependymoma]], glioblastoma.
**Filum terminale - myxopapillary ependymoma, paraganglioma.
**Filum terminale - [[myxopapillary ependymoma]], [[paraganglioma]].


====Filum terminale====
====Filum terminale====
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DDx:<ref>JLK. 31 May 2010.</ref>
DDx:<ref>JLK. 31 May 2010.</ref>
*Meningioma.
*[[Meningioma]].
*Myxopapillary ependymoma.
*[[Myxopapillary ependymoma]].
*Neurofibroma.
*[[Neurofibroma]].
*Schwannoma.
*[[Schwannoma]].
*Paraganglioma.
*Paraganglioma.


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DDx:<ref>R. Kiehl. 8 November 2010.</ref>
DDx:<ref>R. Kiehl. 8 November 2010.</ref>
*Schwannoma.
*Schwannoma.
*Meningioma.
*[[Meningioma]].
*Dermoid cyst/epidermoid cyst.
*[[Dermoid cyst]]/epidermoid cyst.
*Ependymoma.
*Ependymoma.
*Choroid plexus papilloma.
*[[Choroid plexus papilloma]].


===Primary vs. secondary (metastatic)===
===Primary vs. secondary (metastatic)===
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