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Surveillance of Primary Intracranial and Central Nervous System Tumors: Recommendations from the Brain Tumor Working Group
Appendix C

  • Overview
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  • Collection and Coding Clarifications
  •  Surveillance of Primary
     Intracranial and Central
     Nervous System Tumors
    bullet Preface
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    bullet Background
    bullet Methods
    bullet Results
    bullet Discussion
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    bullet Appendix A
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    The following histology groupings were used for the primary intracranial and central nervous system tumors. The source for the histology groupings is: Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS) 1996 Statistics Report, Table 4.



    Brain Tumor Histology Groupings
    WHOa HISTOLOGY GROUP ICD-Ob MORPHOLOGY CODE

    TUMORS OF NEUROEPITHELIAL TISSUE

    Diffuse astrocytoma (protoplasma, fibrillary) 9410, 9420
    Anaplastic astrocytoma 9401, 9411
    Glioblastoma 9440, 9441, 9442
    Pilocytic astrocytoma 9421
    Unique astrocytoma variants 9383, 9384, 9424
    Oligodendroglioma 9450
    Anaplastic oligodendroglioma 9451, 9460
    Ependymoma/anaplastic ependymoma 9391, 9392, 9393
    Ependymoma variants 9394
    Mixed glioma 9382
    Astrocytoma, NOSc 9400
    Glioma malignant, NOS 9380
    Choroid plexus 9390
    Neuroepithelial 9381, 9423, 9430
    Benign neuronal/glial, neuronal and mixed 8680/1, 8693, 9490, 9505, 9506
    Malignant neruonal/glial, neuronal and mixed 8680/3, 9364, 9490, 9500
    Pineal parenchymal 9360, 9361, 9362
    Embryonal/primitive/medulloblastoma 8963, 9470, 9471, 9472, 9473, 9501, 9502, 9503, 9510

    TUMORS OF CRANIAL AND SPINAL NERVES

    Nerve sheath, benign and malignant 9540, 9550, 9560, 9570

    TUMORS OF THE MENINGES

    Meningioma 9530, 9531, 9532, 9533, 9534, 9537, 9538
    Other mesenchymal, benign and malignant 8800, 8801, 8802, 8803, 8810, 8830, 8850, 8861,8900, 8910, 8990, 9133, 9150, 9240, 9480, 9481, 9536, 9539
    Hemangioblastoma 9161, 9535

    LYMPHOMAS AND HEMOPOIETIC NEOPLASMS

    Lymphoma 9590, 9591, 9593, 9594, 9595, 9630, 9650, 9652, 9663, 9670, 9671, 9672, 9674, 9675, 9680, 9681, 9682, 9684, 9685, 9686, 9687, 9690, 9691, 9693, 9695, 9696, 9698, 9702, 9714, 9723, 9731, 9766, 9970

    GERM CELL TUMORS

    Germ cell 8020, 9060, 9064, 9070, 9071, 9080, 9084, 9085, 9100

    CYSTS AND TUMOR-LIKE LESIONS

    Cysts and heterotopias 9084

    TUMORS OF THE SELLAR REGION

    Pituitary 8040, 8l40, 8l46, 8260, 8270, 8271, 8280, 8281, 8290, 8300, 8330, 8323, 8333
    Craniopharyngioma 9350

    LOCAL EXTENSIONS FROM REGIONAL TUMORS

    Chordoma/chondrosarcoma 9370

    UNCLASSIFIED TUMORS

    Hemangioma 9120, 9121, 9130, 9131
    Neoplasm, benign 8000/0, 8010
    Neoplasm, uncertain behavior 8000/1, 8001/1
    Neoplasm, malignant 8000/3, 8001/3, 8002, 8003
    All other 8720, 9580

    aWHO = World Health Organization
    bICD-O = International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Second Edition, 1990.
    cNOS=Not Otherwise Specified

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