WHO Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System, Fourth Edition

The 2016 WHO Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System: The Major Points of Revision

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 the main tumor categories for the first time. This represents a shift from the traditional principle of using neuropathological diagnoses, which are primarily based on the microscopic features, to using molecularly-or...

Tumours of the central nervous system.

Embryonic tumours of the central nervous system.

Surgical neuropathology update: a review of changes introduced by the WHO classification of tumours of the central nervous system, 4th edition.

CONTEXT The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its 4th edition of the classification of tumors of the central nervous system, incorporating a substantial number of important changes to the previous version (WHO 2000). The new WHO classification introduces 7 changes in the grading of central nervous system neoplasms, ranging in significance from minor to major, in categories of a...

The 2007 Revised World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System: newly codified entities.