WHO Classification  of

CNS Tumors (2007)

 

TUMOURS OF NEUROEPITHELIAL TISSUE

 

Astrocytic tumours

Pilocytic astrocytoma

Pilomyxoid astrocytoma

Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma

Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma

Diffuse astrocytoma

Fibrillary astrocytoma

Gemistocytic astrocytoma

Protoplasmic astrocytoma

Anaplastic astrocytoma

Glioblastoma

Giant cell glioblastoma

Gliosarcoma

Gliomatosis cerebri

 

Oligodendroglial tumours

Oligodendroglioma

Anaplastic oligodendroglioma

 

Oligoastrocytic tumours

Oligoastrocytoma

Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma

 

Ependymal tumours

Subependymoma

Myxopapillary ependymoma

Ependymoma

Cellular

Papillary

Clear cell

Tanycytic

Anaplastic ependymoma

 

Choroid plexus tumours

Choroid plexus papilloma

Atypical choroid plexus papilloma

Choroid plexus carcinoma

 

Other neuroepithelial tumours

Astroblastoma

Chordoid glioma of the third ventricle

Angiocentric glioma

 

Neuronal and mixed neuronal-glial tumours

Dysplastic gangliocytoma of cerebellum

(Lhermitte-Duclos)

Desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma/

ganglioglioma

Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour

Gangliocytoma

Ganglioglioma

Anaplastic ganglioglioma

Central neurocytoma

Extraventricular neurocytoma

Cerebellar liponeurocytoma

Papillary glioneuronal tumour

Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumour

of the fourth ventricle

Paraganglioma

 

Tumours of the pineal region

Pineocytoma

Pineal parenchymal tumour of

intermediate differentiation

Pineoblastoma

Papillary tumour of the pineal region

Embryonal tumours

Medulloblastoma

Desmoplastic/nodular medulloblastoma

Medulloblastoma with extensive

nodularity

Anaplastic medulloblastoma

Large cell medulloblastoma

CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumour

CNS Neuroblastoma

CNS Ganglioneuroblastoma

Medulloepithelioma

Ependymoblastoma

Atypical teratoid / rhabdoid tumour

 

TUMOURS OF CRANIAL AND PARASPINAL

NERVES

Schwannoma (neurilemoma, neurinoma)

Cellular

Plexiform

Melanotic

Neurofibroma

Plexiform

Perineurioma

Perineurioma,

Malignant perineurioma

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour (MPNST)

Epithelioid MPNST

MPNST with mesenchymal differentiation

Melanotic MPNST

MPNST with glandular differentiation

 

 

TUMOURS OF THE MENINGES

 

Tumours of meningothelial cells

Meningioma

Meningothelial

Fibrous (fibroblastic)

Transitional (mixed)

Psammomatous

Angiomatous

Microcystic

Secretory

Lymphoplasmacyte-rich

Metaplastic

Chordoid

Clear cell

Atypical

Papillary

Rhabdoid

Anaplastic (malignant)

 

Mesenchymal tumours

Lipoma

Angiolipoma

Hibernoma

Liposarcoma

Solitary fibrous tumour

Fibrosarcoma

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma

Leiomyoma

Leiomyosarcoma

Rhabdomyoma

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Chondroma

Chondrosarcoma

Osteoma

Osteosarcoma

Osteochondroma

Haemangioma

Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma

Haemangiopericytoma

Anaplastic haemangiopericytoma

Angiosarcoma

Kaposi sarcoma

Ewing sarcoma - PNET

Primary melanocytic lesions

Diffuse melanocytosis

Melanocytoma

Malignant melanoma

Meningeal melanomatosis

 

Other neoplasms related to the meninges

Haemangioblastoma

 

LYMPHOMAS AND HAEMATOPOIETIC

NEOPLASMS

Malignant lymphomas

Plasmacytoma

Granulocytic sarcoma

 

GERM CELL TUMOURS

Germinoma

Embryonal carcinoma

Yolk sac tumour

Choriocarcinoma

Teratoma

Mature

Immature

Teratoma with malignant transformation

Mixed germ cell tumour

 

TUMOURS OF THE SELLAR REGION

Craniopharyngioma

Adamantinomatous

Papillary

Granular cell tumour

Pituicytoma

Spindle cell oncocytoma

of the adenohypophysis

 

METASTATIC TUMOURS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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