Primary brain tumors affect approximately 15 per hundred thousand people. Their rare occurrence provides few pathologists with sufficient material to gain expertise in the field. This text attempts to provide a sense of the vast variety of histologic appearances that these tumors may exhibit, discuss the findings in terms that pathologist can understand, and provide them with an outline of the proper handling of these tumors to arrive at a correct diagnosis. The text accomplishes these...
More DescriptionPrimary brain tumors affect approximately 15 per hundred thousand people. Their rare occurrence provides few pathologists with sufficient material to gain expertise in the field. This text attempts to provide a sense of the vast variety of histologic appearances that these tumors may exhibit, discuss the findings in terms that pathologist can understand, and provide them with an outline of the proper handling of these tumors to arrive at a correct diagnosis. The text accomplishes these goals by discussing those tumors found mainly in adults in one section and in children in another section, an organization that the authors have found to be extremely useful in their teaching other pathologists about this area of pathology, but is currently lacking.