Palisades in cerebral astrocytoma simulating the so-called polar spongioblastoma: a histological, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopical study of an adult case.
This report concerns a case of fibrous astrocytoma with palisade features that mimics a polar spongioblastoma. The patient was a 54-year-old female who presented with a tumor of the frontal lobe. The presence of neurites, with or without synaptic devices were considered to represent the entrapment by the tumors of the pre-existing neurons and their processes.
Division of Pathology, Kanagawa Rehabilitation Center.
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Yagishita
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Kawano
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Oka
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Kameya
D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein / Q000032:analysis; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase / Q000032:analysis; D014746:Vimentin / Q000032:analysis
D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein; D014746:Vimentin; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase