Histology far away from Flatland: 3D roller-coasting into grade-dependent angiogenetic patterns in oligodendrogliomas

J Cell Mol Med. 2008 Apr;12(2):564-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2007.00206.x. Epub 2007 Dec 20.

Abstract

Angiogenesis plays a key role in tumour progression, and undergoes structural changes associated to tumour biology itself. Although vessel density can be easily evaluated in brain tumours using a traditional immuno-histochemical approach, other parameters of conceptual/biological interest, such as the complex patterns of vascular growth, cannot be fully understood using a traditional bi-dimensional evaluation. We use here surgical specimens derived from oligodendrogliomas as a model for a novel elucidative 3D reconstruction of the grade-dependent vascular arborisation in brain tumours.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / blood supply*
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional*
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / pathology*
  • Oligodendroglioma / blood supply*
  • Oligodendroglioma / pathology*
  • Oligodendroglioma / surgery