Pathological advances in pediatric brain tumors

Abstract

Pediatric brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children. Compared with brain tumors in adults, pediatric brain tumors have characteristic clinicopathological features and molecular mechanisms. The accurate diagnosis and classification of brain tumors in children is important for patients to have an individualized therapy and to improve the survival rate. With the further study of pediatric brain tumors, there are some new viewpoints on pilocytic astrocytoma (PA), ependymoma, medulloblastoma (MB), atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), etc. In this article, an overview about pathological advances in the common pediatric brain tumors will be shown.

DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2015.10.002