A rare presentation of a primary glial tumor: Why molecular profiling should always be done even in obvious cases?

Frank van de Goot

Symbiant Pathology Expert Centre, Netherlands

Keynote: J Neurol Disord

Abstract :

Sometime a histological diagnosis is so obvious that one can easily forget that exceptions are always present. We would like to present a casus of a 56 year old man, know with a pulmonary small cell neuro-endocrine carcinoma. He was diagnoses with a cerebral mass for which he was biopsied. The outcome was surprising and indicates again that even the clear cases in neuro-oncology deserve molecular profiling.

Biography :

Frank van de Goot is a registered Anatomical Pathologist and an expert witness in the field of forensic pathology. He studied Medicine and Anatomical Pathology at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Rechtsmedizin at the Zentrum für Rechtsmedizin in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The first seven years of his career he worked both as a Forensic Pathologist at the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague, The Netherlands and as an Anatomical Pathologist at the VU University Medical Center. He now works at Symbiant Pathology Expert Centre, where he is on a mission to improve forensic and autopsy education for both medical and non-medical students.

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