Scientific program:
2:00pm Opening address Yoichi Nakazato, M.D.
2:05pm Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma.
Takanori Hirose
Department of Pathology, Saitama Medical University
2:20pm Vacuolated ependymoma.
Junko Hirato
Department of Pathology, Gunma University School of Medicine
2:35pm Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor.
Peter L. Lantos
Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
3:05pm --- Coffee break ---
3:25pm Papillary glioneuronal tumor.
Takashi Komori
Department of Clinical Neuropathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Neurological Science
3:40pm Central neurocytoma.
Hernando Mena
Department of Neuropathology, Armed Foces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
4:10pm Histopathological and genetic typing of CNS neoplasms : The new WHO classification.
Paul Kleihues
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
5:10pm Closing remarks Tsuneo Shimizu, M.D.
6:00pm --- Cocktail reception at Gunma Royal Hotel ---