Astrocytoma

Astrocytomas are the most frequent primary brain tumour and can occur in most parts of the brain and occasionally in the spinal cord. They originate on a particula kind of glial cells, star-shaped brain cels in the cerebrum called astrocytes. Within the astrocytomas, there are different types:
 

Pilocytic Astrocytoma (WHO grade I)

• Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma (WHO grade I)
Diffuse Astrocytoma (WHO grade II)
• Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma (WHO grade II/III)
Anaplastic Astrocytoma (WHO grade III)
Glioblastoma Multiforme (WHO-Grad IV)

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