Consecutive histological changes in an astroblastoma that disseminated to the spinal cord after repeated intracranial recurrences: A case report

Brain Tumor Pathology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-31

  Hirano, Hirofumi ^a   Yunoue, Shunji ^a   Kaji, Masatomo ^a   Tsuchiya, Masahiro ^a   Arita, Kazunori ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astroblastoma; Immunohistochemistry; Morphological change; Rosette

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; CD133 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CELL MARKER; CISPLATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM; GELATINASE B; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IFOSFAMIDE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; METHIONINE C 11; NESTIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; NIMUSTINE; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN NSE; PROTEIN S 100; PROTEIN TUJ1; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ENOLASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROBLASTOMA; BLASTOMA; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYTOPLASM; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMB WEAKNESS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT CANCER; ROSETTE FORMATION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TUMOR CELL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN TUMOR; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; NICK END LABELING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RADIOSURGERY; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 54049132556     PISSN: 14337398     EISSN: 1861387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10014-007-0224-2     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Bailey P, Cushing H (1926) Classification of the tumours of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis. Lippincott, Montreal
2. M. Kaji H. Takeshima Y. Nakazato 2006 Low-grade astroblastoma recurring with extensive invasion Neurol Med-Chir 46 450 454
3. S.I. Bannykh X. Fan K.L. Black 2007 Malignant astroblastoma with rhabdoid morphology J Neuro-Oncol 83 277 278
4. A. Alaraj M. Chan S. Oh 2007 Astroblastoma presenting with intracerebral hemorrhage misdiagnosed as dural arteriovenous fistula: review of a rare entity Surg Neurol 67 308 313
5. J.W. Bell A.G. Osborn K.L. Salzman 2007 Neuroradiologic characteristics of astroblastoma Neuroradiology 49 203 209
6. N. Yunten Y. Ersahin E. Demirtas 1996 Cerebral astroblastoma resembling an extra-axial neoplasm J Neuroradiol 23 38 40
7. J.J. Baka S.C. Patel J.R. Roebuck 1993 Predominantly extraaxial astroblastoma: imaging and proton MR spectroscopy features AJNR 14 946 950
8. T. Kubota K. Sato H. Arishima 2006 Astroblastoma: immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study of distinctive epithelial and probable tanycytic differentiation Neuropathology 26 72 81
9. S.L. Huhn Y. Yung S. Cheshier 2005 Identification of phenotypic neural stem cells in a pediatric astroblastoma J Neurosurg 103 446 450
10. D.S. Kim S.Y. Park S.P. Lee 2004 Astroblastoma: a case report J Korean Med Sci 19 772 776
11. A.N. Husain J.E. Leestma 1986 Cerebral astroblastoma: immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features. Case report J Neurosurg 64 657 661
12. A. Cabello S. Madero A. Castresana 1991 Astroblastoma: electron microscopy and immunohistochemical findings: case report Surg Neurol 35 116 121
13. E. Caroli M. Salvati V. Esposito 2004 Cerebral astroblastoma Acta Neurochir 146 629 633
14. Y. Sugita M. Terasaki M. Shigemori 2002 Astroblastoma with unusual signet-ring-like cell components: a case report and literature review Neuropathology 22 200 205
15. J. Yamashita H. Handa T. Yamagami 1985 Astroblastoma of pure type Surg Neurol 24 218 222
16. G. Hoag A.A. Sima B. Rozdilsky 1986 Astroblastoma revisited: a report of three cases Acta Neuropathol 70 10 16
17. J.M. Bonnin L.J. Rubinstein 1989 Astroblastomas: a pathological study of 23 tumors, with a postoperative follow-up in 13 patients Neurosurgery 25 6 13
18. N. Hata T. Shono K. Yoshimoto 2006 An astroblastoma case associated with loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 9p J Neuro-Oncol 80 69 73
19. P. Miranda R.D. Lobato A. Cabello 2006 Complete surgical resection of high-grade astroblastoma with long time survival: case report and review of the literature Neurocirugia (Asturias, Spain) 17 60 63
20. B. Thiessen J. Finlay R. Kulkarni 1998 Astroblastoma: does histology predict biologic behavior? J Neuro-Oncol 40 59 65
21. T. Kubota A. Hirano K. Sato 1985 The fine structure of astroblastoma Cancer (Phila) 55 745 750
22. H. Takebayashi Y. Nabeshima S. Yoshida 2002 The basic helix-loo-helix factor olig2 is essential for the development of motoneuron and oligodendrocyte lineages Curr Biol 12 1157 1163
23. T. Setoguchi T. Kondo 2004 Nuclear export of OLIG2 in neural stem cells is essential for ciliary neurotrophic factor-induced astrocyte differentiation J Cell Biol 166 963 968
24. B.L. Pizer T. Moss A. Oakhill 1995 Congenital astroblastoma: an immunohistochemical study. Case report J Neurosurg 83 550 555
25. S. Shuangshoti W. Mitphraphan S. Kanvisetsri 2000 Astroblastoma: report of a case with microsatellite analysis Neuropathology 20 228 232
26. H. Takebayashi S. Yoshida M. Sugimori 2000 Dynamic expression of basic helix-loop-helix Olig family members: implication of Olig2 in neuron and oligodendrocyte differentiation and identification of a new member, Olig3 Mech Dev 99 143 148
27. D.J. Brat Y. Hirose K.J. Cohen 2000 Astroblastoma: clinicopathologic features and chromosomal abnormalities defined by comparative genomic hybridization Brain Pathol (Zurich) 10 342 352
28. J.A. Kraus J. Koopmann P. Kaskel 1995 Shared allelic losses on chromosomes 1p and 19q suggest a common origin of oligodendroglioma and oligoastrocytoma J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 54 91 95
29. L.J. Rubinstein M.M. Herman 1989 The astroblastoma and its possible cytogenic relationship to the tanycyte. An electron microscopic, immunohistochemical, tissue-and organ-culture study Acta Neuropathol 78 472 483
30. R. Navarro A.J. Reitman G.A. de Leon 2005 Astroblastoma in childhood: pathological and clinical analysis Childs Nerv Syst 21 211 220