THE OLIGODENDROGLIOMAS
- 1 August 1931
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 26 (2) , 279-321
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1931.02230080035003
Abstract
The demonstration of the participation of the oligodendroglia in the formation of gliomas of the brain was first made by Bailey and Cushing.1Following the discovery of the oligodendroglia by del Rio-Hortega2, Bailey and Hiller3expressed the idea that certain tumors of which they had examples "must be composed of oligodendroglia." However, it was Bailey and Cushing who first separated these tumors into a definite entity and classified them as oligodendrogliomas. These tumors, as they pointed out, had certain well defined morphologic characteristics which seemed so uniform that they could be diagnosed with simple routine stains. These authors were supported in their conception by reports of similar neoplasms by Dickson,4Schaffer5and Thomas and Jumentié.6Nevertheless, while in general appearance the tumors and the tumor cells seemed to resemble the oligodendroglia cells in the gray and white matter of the brain, there was someThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: