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Prior to the publication by WHO of the “Histological Typing of Tumours of the Central Nervous System” by Zülch in 1979 [17], both clinicians and pathologists were using a variety of different terminologies. Zülch listed five different readily dif-ferentiable astrocytomas (astrocytic tumours), together with a number of subtypes. Worthy of special mention is the pilocytic astrocytoma, which is also met with in the literature under the name juvenile astrocytoma. This tumour, which histologically resembles a spongioblastoma, is a slowly growing neoplasm, often located in the posterior cranial fossa. It can be completely removed surgically, and is considered to be not very sensitive to radiation [6, 10, 14]. However, Marsa et al. [13] report good long-term results from radiotherapy in such tumours located in the optic chiasm, the third ventricle, the hypothalamus and the cerebellum.
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Herbst, M. (1982). Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of the Astrocytomas and Midline Tumours of Childhood. In: Voth, D., Gutjahr, P., Langmaid, C. (eds) Tumours of the Central Nervous System in Infancy and Childhood. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95413-9_46
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