31+ Homer Wright Rosettes Vs Flexner Wintersteiner Gif. Microcystic changes are a feature of diffuse astrocytoma. Palisading tumor cells surrounding a true central lumen.
A rosette is a structure or formation resembling a rose, such as the clusters of polymorphonuclear leukocytes around a globule of lipid nuclear material.
The cytoplasm is scanty, poorly defined, and frequently pale owing to an abundance of glycogen. Start date may 30, 2012. Neoplastic cells palisading around a central zone of fibrillar neural matrix; This rosette, named for james homer wright, the first director of the massachusetts general hospital, is typically seen in neuroblastomas, medulloblastomas, and this rosette (named for pathologist simon flexner and ophthalmologist hugo wintersteiner) is characteristic of retinoblastomas.