Glioblastoma
Glioblastoma

A low power photomicrograph of a glioblastoma showing the characteristic necrosis with some palisading of nuclei about it.
The glioblastoma is also called an astrocytoma grade IV in the new WHO classification.
An anaplastic astrocytoma is grade III and shows no necrosis.
(Description By:Margaret Grunnet,M.D. )
(Image Contrib. by:Margaret Grunnet,M.D. UCHC )