CYTOLOGY OF PRIMARY NEOPLASMS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS-SYSTEM

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  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 21  (1) , 40-47
Abstract
The case histories of 273 patients with primary neoplasms of the CNS seen from 1968-1973 were reviewed. Neoplastic cells were identified in cytologic preparations obtained from 76 patients. These include patients with meningioma, astrocytoma, glioblastoma multiforme, oligodendroglioma, ependymoma, medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, pineoblastoma and pituitary adenoma. There are certain suggestive cellular features of these neoplasms in cytologic preparations, but additional studies are needed to establish the cytomorphologic characteristics which may aid in the differential diagnosis of primary intracranial neoplasms from extracranial neoplasms which are metastatic to the CNS.

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