Identification of the underlying genetic and epigenetic alterations in an increasing number of
tumors of the nervous system is contributing to a more clinically relevant classification. In the …

Abstract The new World Health Organization (WHO) classification of nervous system tumors,
published in 2000, emerged from a 1999 international consensus conference of …

The fourth edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumours of the
central nervous system, published in 2007, lists several new entities, including angiocentric …

Other novel clinically relevant and carefully defined entities are expected to join the growing
list of brain tumors in the near future. New tools in cytogenetics and molecular genetics are …

The fifth edition of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System (CNS),
published in 2021, is the sixth version of the international standard for the classification of …

The recent update of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumors of the
central nervous system represents a paradigm shift. Previous iterations of the classification …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumours, also
known as WHO Blue Books, represents an international standardised tool in the diagnostic …

Background The understanding of molecular alterations of tumors has severely changed the
concept of classification in all fields of pathology. The availability of high-throughput …

The 2016 WHO classification of central nervous system tumors... : Current Opinion in Neurology
The 2016 WHO classification of central nervous system tumors: what neurologists need to …

The updated 2016 edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumours
of the Central Nervous System (CNS) uses molecular parameters and the histology to define …