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# Medulloblastoma. | # Medulloblastoma. | ||
# Ependymoma. | # Ependymoma. | ||
===Location (most common)=== | |||
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: | |||
**Cortical based - oligodendroglioma. | |||
**Grey-white junction - metastases. | |||
**White matter - astrocytoma, glioblastoma. | |||
**Periventricular - CNS lymphoma. | |||
**Cystic - ganglioglioma, pilocytic astrocytoma, pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma. | |||
*Cerebellum: | |||
**Midline/central - medulloblastoma. | |||
**Cystic lesion - pilocytic astrocytoma (younger individual), hemangioblastoma (older individual). | |||
**Solid lesion (older individual) - metastasis. | |||
*Spinal cord: | |||
**Ependymoma, glioblastoma. | |||
**Filum terminale - myxopapillary ependymoma, paraganglioma. | |||
==Astrocytomas== | ==Astrocytomas== | ||