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Brain tumors : practical guide to diagnosis and treatment /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Baehring, Joachim M., Piepmeier, J. M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Informa Healthcare, [2007]
Series:Neurological disease and therapy ; v. 89.
Subjects:
Brain > Tumors.
Cerveau > Tumeurs.
Central Nervous System Neoplasms > therapy.
Central Nervous System Neoplasms > diagnosis.
Neoplasms > complications.
Nervous System Diseases > etiology.
Neurologic Manifestations.
Therapeutics > adverse effects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Principles of neurosurgical therapy
  • Principles of radiation therapy
  • Principles of chemotherapy
  • New approaches to brain tumor therapy
  • Imaging in neurooncology
  • Neurooncological syndromes
  • Pathology and classification of tumors of the nevous system
  • Astrocytic tumors
  • Oligodendrolioma and mixed tumors
  • Ependymal tumors
  • Tumors of the choroid plexus
  • Neuroepithelial tumors of unknown origin
  • Neuronal and glioneuronal neoplasms of the central nervous system
  • Pineal parenchymal tumors
  • Embryonal tumors
  • Peripheral neuroblastic tumors
  • Meningiomas
  • Malignant central nervous system neoplams of mesenchymal origin
  • Primary lymphoma of the central nervous system
  • Tumors of the sellar region: craniopharyngioma and pituitary adenoma
  • Peripheral nerve sheath tumors
  • Germinoma, nongermiomatous germ cell tumors
  • Central nervous system metastases
  • Increased intracranial pressure and extradural compression syndromes
  • Leptomeningeal cancer
  • Neurovascular complications of cancer
  • Symptomatic epilepsy
  • Cancer and the peripheral nervous system
  • Neurological complications of cancer therapy
  • Paraneoplastic autoimmunity affecting the nervous system.