48,836
edits
Difference between revisions of "Neuropathology tumours"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Ependymoma
m (→Microscopy) |
|||
| Line 506: | Line 506: | ||
*Cells have a "tadpole-like" morphology. | *Cells have a "tadpole-like" morphology. | ||
**May also be described as ''ice cream cone-shaped''.<ref>[http://www.pathology.vcu.edu/WirSelfInst/tumor-2.html http://www.pathology.vcu.edu/WirSelfInst/tumor-2.html]</ref> | **May also be described as ''ice cream cone-shaped''.<ref>[http://www.pathology.vcu.edu/WirSelfInst/tumor-2.html http://www.pathology.vcu.edu/WirSelfInst/tumor-2.html]</ref> | ||
* | *'''Rosettes''' = circular nuclear free zones/cells arranged in a pseudoglandular fashion; comes in two flavours in ependymoma: | ||
**''Perivascular pseudorosettes'' = (tumour) cells arranged around a blood vessel; nuclei of cells distant from the blood vessel, i.e. rim of cytoplasm (from tumour cells) surround blood vessel (nucleus-free zone); more common than ependymal rosette... but less specific. | |||
**''Ependymal rosette'' ([[AKA]] ''true ependymal rosette'') = rosette has an empty space at the centre - '''key feature'''. | |||
**''Perivascular pseudorosettes'' = (tumour) cells arranged around a blood vessel; nuclei of cells distant from the blood vessel, i.e. rim of cytoplasm (from tumour cells) surround blood vessel (nucleus-free zone) | *Nuclear features monotonous, i.e. "boring".<ref>MUN. 6 Oct 2009.</ref> | ||
** | |||
*Nuclear | |||
**There is little variation in size, shape and staining. | **There is little variation in size, shape and staining. | ||
Images: | Images: | ||
*[http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content-nw/full/27/3/488/F10 Ependymoma - ependymal rosettes (ajnr.org)]. | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ependymoma_intermed_mag.jpg Ependymoma - intermed. mag. (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ependymoma_intermed_mag.jpg Ependymoma - intermed. mag. (WC)]. | ||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ependymoma_low_intermed_mag.jpg Ependymoma - low mag. (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ependymoma_low_intermed_mag.jpg Ependymoma - low mag. (WC)]. | ||