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| ==Meningioma== | | ==Meningioma== |
| | {{Main|Meningioma}} |
| ===General=== | | ===General=== |
| *Common. | | *Very common. |
| *Extra-axial. (???)
| | *May be part of a syndrome. |
| *Most are benign.
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| **May be malignant.
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| *May be seen in genetic disorders such as [[neurofibromatosis]].<Ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurotest/Q13-Ans.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/neurotest/Q13-Ans.htm]. Accessed on: 26 October 2010.</ref> | |
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| ===Microscopic=== | | ===Microscopic=== |
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| *Calcification. | | *Calcification. |
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| Many subtypes exist:
| | Grading: see ''[[meningioma]]''. |
| *Atypical meningioma.
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| **Has invasion of the brain - WHO Grade 2.
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| *Angiomatous meningioma.
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| *Others.
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| *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meningioma_high_mag.jpg Meningioma - high mag. (WC)].
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| *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meningioma_intermed_mag.jpg Meningioma - intermed. mag. (WC)].
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| *[http://www.neuropathologyweb.org/chapter7/chapter7dMiscellaneous.html Meningioma (neuropathologyweb.org)].
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| DDx:
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| *Cerebral angioid angiopathy. (???)
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| *May involute into benign sclerotic tissue.<ref>URL: [http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/23/3/785.long http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/23/3/785.long]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
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| ====Histomorphologic grading====
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| Grading:<ref name=Ref_PSNP194>{{Ref PSNP|194}}</ref> | |
| *Grade 1:
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| **Low mitotic rate.
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| **Excludes ''clear cell'', ''chordoid'', ''papillary'', and ''rhabdoid'' subtypes.
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| *Grade 2 (either #1 or #2):
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| *#Brain-invasive meningioma.
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| *#*Protrusion of meningioma into brain.
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| *#**Meninogioma with entraped GFAP +ve tissue.
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| *#Atypical meningioma (by histomorphology).
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| *#*Intermediate mitotic rate (>= 4 mitoses/10 HPF - for whatever ''HPF'' means, see [[HPFitis]].)
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| *#*Three of the following five features:
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| *#*#Sheeting architecture.
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| *#*#High NC ratio clusters; clusters of "lymphocyte-like" cells.
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| *#*#Hypercellularity.
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| *#*#Macronucleoli.
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| *#*#Necrosis not caused by treatment, e.g. radiation or embolization.
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| *Grade 3 (either of the following):
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| **High mitotic rate (>=20 mitoses/10 HPF - for whatever ''HPF'' means, see [[HPFitis]].)
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| **"Frank anaplasia"; marked nuclear atypia.
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| necrosis, NC ratio,
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| ===IHC===
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| *EMA +ve.<ref name=Ref_PSNP13>{{Ref PSNP|13}}</ref>
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| **Other CKs usu. -ve.
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| ==Schwannoma== | | ==Schwannoma== |