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Glioblastoma is a grade IV astrocytic tumor that is defined histologically be the four characteristics described above. It must be differentiated from ''anaplastic astrocytoma'', a grade III astrocytic tumor. Anaplastic astrocytoma also shows severe atypia and many mitotic figures but no pseudopalisading necrosis or microvascular proliferation.
Glioblastoma is a grade IV astrocytic tumor that is defined histologically be the four characteristics described above. It must be differentiated from ''anaplastic astrocytoma'', a grade III astrocytic tumor. Anaplastic astrocytoma also shows severe atypia and many mitotic figures but no pseudopalisading necrosis or microvascular proliferation.
[[File:Glioblastoma - atypia.png|thumb|Tumor cells show severe atypia and there are many mitotic figures present.|left|364x364px]]
[[File:Glioblastoma - atypia.png|thumb|Tumor cells show severe atypia and there are many mitotic figures present.|364x364px]]
[[File:Glioblastoma - microvascular proliferation.png|thumb|Tumor on the left, showing microvascular proliferation. Normal brain parenchyme on the right for comparison.|346x346px]]
[[File:Glioblastoma - microvascular proliferation.png|thumb|Tumor on the left, showing microvascular proliferation. Normal brain parenchyme on the right for comparison.|346x346px]]
[[Category:Pathology 2 - Histopathology slides]]
[[Category:Pathology 2 - Histopathology slides]]