Neuro Oncol · 2021

The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary

Louis DN, Perry A, Wesseling P, Brat DJ, Cree IA, Figarella-Branger D, Hawkins C, Ng HK, Pfister SM, Reifenberger G, Soffietti R, von Deimling A, Ellison DW.

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  • Louis DN — Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Perry A — Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Wesseling P — Department of Pathology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers/VUmc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Brat DJ — Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Cree IA — International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France.
  • Figarella-Branger D — Service d'Anatomie Pathologique et de Neuropathologie, APHM, CNRS, Institut de Neurophysiopathologie, Hôpital de la Timone, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
  • Hawkins C — Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Ng HK — Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
  • Pfister SM — Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Reifenberger G — Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Düsseldorf and Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) Partner Site Essen/Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Soffietti R — Department of Neurology and Neuro-Oncology, University of Turin Medical School, Turin, Italy.
  • von Deimling A — Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Ellison DW — Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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Ines Brown

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Interesting idea, small sample.

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Jonas Brown

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Important contribution to the field.

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Pablo Silva

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Nice but incremental.

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Omar Lee

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Important contribution to the field.

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Noor Brown

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Nadia Nguyen

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Replication is unclear to me.

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Liam Rossi

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Great figures and clear story.

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Jonas Rossi

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Ravi Rossi

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Solid methods, convincing results.

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Eva Kim

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Nice but incremental.

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Lena Mueller

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Important contribution to the field.