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Article: Brain tumors: recent advances in diagnosis and classification.(Special Section--Update on Brain Tumor Diagnosis and Classification)(Disease/Disorder overview)
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
- Author:
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In this issue of the ARCHIVES, 4 significant areas of advancement in the clinical diagnosis and classification of brain tumors are highlighted: (1) newly recognized types of mixed glioneuronal tumors, with which the surgical pathologist should be conversant; (2) recently introduced immunohistochemical markers of practical utility in brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis; (3) the current status of our understanding of deletions of chromosomes 1p and 19q in the molecular diagnosis of oligodendroglioma; and (4) a review of state-of-the-art current and emerging neuroimaging techniques for central nervous system (CNS) tumors and other CNS diseases.
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