Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Principles of the new World Health Organization (WHO) classification of brain tumors

  • Review Article
  • Published:
Neuroradiology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Arendt, A.: Histologisch-diagnostischer Atlas der Geschwülste des ZNS und seiner Anhangsgebilde. Jena: Fischer 1964

    Google Scholar 

  2. Bailey, P.: Cellular types in primary tumors of the brain. In: Cytology and cellular pathology of the nervous system, pp. 905–951. (ed. W. Penfield). New York: Hoeber 1932

    Google Scholar 

  3. Bailey, P., Cushing, H.: A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis. Philadelphia, London, Montreal: Lippincott 1926

    Google Scholar 

  4. Bailey, P., Cushing, H.: Die Gewebsverschiedenheit der Gliome und ihre Bedeutung für die Prognose. Jena: Fischer 1930

    Google Scholar 

  5. Barnard, R. O.: Tumor biopsy in brain tumour. In: Handbook of clinical neurology, Vol. 16, Part I: Tumors of the brain and skull, pp. 708–726. (eds. P. J. Vinken, G. W. Bruyn). Amsterdam: North Holland 1974

    Google Scholar 

  6. Barnard, R. O.: Paper read at the VIIIth International Congress of the International Society of Neuropathology, Washington, 2–24 September 1978

  7. Bergstrand, H.: On gliomas of the cerebral hemispheres. Acta Path. Microbiol. Scand. Suppl. 11, 100–113 (1932)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Clara, M.: Das Nervensystem des Menschen. Leipzig: Barth 1959

    Google Scholar 

  9. Kernohan, J. W., Mabon, R. F., Svien, H. J., Adson, A. W.: A simplified classification of the gliomas. Proc. Mayo Clin. 24, 71–75 (1949)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Obrador Alcalde, S., Sanz Ibanez, J.: Tumores intracraneales. Madrid: Monografia del Instituto Nacional de Oncologia 1955

    Google Scholar 

  11. Penfield, W.: The classification of gliomas and neuroglia cell types. Arch. Neurol. Psychiatr. (Chicago) 26, 745–753 (1931)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Rio-Hortega, P. del: Nomenclatura y classificacion de los tumores del sistema nervioso. Buenos Aires: Lopez & Etchegoyen 1945

    Google Scholar 

  13. Roussy, G., Oberling, C.: Atlas du cancer. Paris: Felix Alcan 1931

    Google Scholar 

  14. Rubinstein, L. J.: Atlas of tumor pathology. Tumors of the central nervous system. II. Ser., Fasc. 6. Washington: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology 1972

    Google Scholar 

  15. Russell, D. S., Rubinstein, L. J.: Pathology of tumors of the nervous system. London: Arnold 1971

    Google Scholar 

  16. Schiffer, D., Fabiani, A.: Pathologia dei tumori cerebrali. Rome: Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore 1970

    Google Scholar 

  17. Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum: Histologische Nomenklatur menschlicher Tumoren. Z. Krebsforsch. 63, 75–98 (1959)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum: Illustrated tumor nomenclature. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer 1965

    Google Scholar 

  19. Wende, S., Aulich, A., Kretzchmar, K., Grumme, T., Meese, W., Lange, S., Steinhoff, H., Lanksch, W.: Die Computer-Tomographie der Hirngeschwülste. Eine Sammelstudie über 1658 Tumoren. Radiologe 17, 149–156 (1977)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Zülch, K. J.: Über die geschichtliche Entwicklung und den heutigen Stand der Klassifikation der Hirngeschwülste (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Gliome) Übersichtsreferat. Zbl. Neurochir. 4, 251–335 (1939)

    Google Scholar 

  21. Zülch, K. J.: Die Hirngeschwülste in biologischer und morphologischer Darstellung. Leipzig: Barth 1951, 1958

    Google Scholar 

  22. Zülch, K. J.: Biologie und Pathologie der Hirngeschwülste. Handbuch der Neurochirurgie, Bd. III, pp. 1–702, (eds. H. Olivercrona, W. Tönnis). Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg: Springer 1956

    Google Scholar 

  23. Zülch, K. J.: Brain tumors. Their biology and pathology. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 3rd edit. (in press)

  24. Zülch, K. J.: Atlas of the histology of brain tumors. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer 1975

    Google Scholar 

  25. Zülch, K. J.: Atlas of gross neurosurgical pathology. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer 1975

    Google Scholar 

  26. Zülch, K. J.: Principles of the new WHO classification of brain tumors. J. Neurosurg. Sci. 22, 1–5 (1978)

    Google Scholar 

  27. Zülch, K. J.: Principles of the new WHO classification of brain tumors. In: Advances in neurosurgery 5: Head injuries. Tumors of the cerebellar region, pp. 279–284. (eds. R.A. Frowein, O. Wilcke, A. Karimi-Nejad, M. Brock, M. Klinger). Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer 1978

    Google Scholar 

  28. Zülch, K. J., Mennel, H. D.: The biology of brain tumours. In: Handbook of clinical neurology, Vol. 16, pp. 1–55 (eds. P. J. Finken, B. W. Bruyn). Amsterdam: North-Holland 1974

    Google Scholar 

  29. Zülch, K. J., Wechsler, W.: Pathology and classification of gliomas. Progr. Neurol. Surg., Vol. 2, pp. 1–84. Basel, New York: Karger 1968

    Google Scholar 

  30. Zülch, K. J., Woolf, A. L.: Classification of brain tumours. Acta Neurochir. (Wien), Supp. X. Wien: Springer 1964

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of General Neurology, Max-Planck-Institut für Hirnforschung, D-5000, Köln, Federal Republic of Germany

    K. J. Zülch

Authors
  1. K. J. Zülch
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Zülch, K.J. Principles of the new World Health Organization (WHO) classification of brain tumors. Neuroradiology 19, 59–66 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00342596

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00342596

Keywords

Search

Navigation