http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xv, 891 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
I. Epidemiology, pathology, and imaging of brain tumors -- Epidemiology of brain tumors -- Neuropathology of central nervous system tumors -- Clinical presentation of patients with brain tumors -- Imaging in central nervous system tumors -- Single photo emission computed topography in the evaluation of adult primary brain tumors -- Positron emission tomography for the management of brain tumors -- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its use in brain tumor diagnosis and therapy -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging for neurosurgery -- II. Principles of brain tumor management and therapy -- Principles of pediatric brain tumor surgery -- Principles of brain tumor surgery in adults -- Image-guided surgery -- Principles of brain tumor radiotherapy -- Biologic-based brain tumor therapy -- Chemotherapy for central nervous system tumors -- Immunotherapy for malignant gliomas -- Gene therapy -- Management of non-neoplastic problems in brain tumor patients -- Psychiatric management of brain tumor patients -- III. Specific tumor types and their treatment -- Meningiomas : natural history, diagnosis and imaging -- Meningioma : surgery -- Meningioma : skull base surgery -- Radiosurgery in the treatment of meningiomas -- Radiotherapy in the treatment of meningiomas -- Medical management of meningiomas -- Vestibular schwannoma : overview of natural history and diagnosis -- Surgery in the treatment of vestibular schwannoma -- Radiosurgery in the treatment of vestibular schwannomas -- Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in the treatment of acoustic neuromas -- Vestibular schwannomas in the setting of neurofibromatosis type 2 -- Medical management of pituitary adenomas -- Surgery for pituitary adenoma -- Fractionated conformal radiotherapy in the treatment of pituitary tumors -- Craniopharyngiomas -- Nerve sheath tumors of the spine -- Low-grade supratentorial glioma -- Pediatric low-grade gliomas of the chiasm and cerebellum -- Malignant gliomas -- Sarcomas -- Ependymomas -- Medulloblastoma and other primitive neuroectodermal tumors -- Hemangioblastoma -- Tumors of the pineal region -- Central nervous system lymphoma in AIDS and non-AIDs patients -- Gliomas of the spine -- Vertebral body tumors -- Rare malignant brain tumors -- Surgery for brain metastases -- Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for brain metastases -- Epidural disease -- Neoplastic meningitis -- Paraneoplastic disorders of the nervous system -- IV. Basic and applied biology of brain tumors -- Hereditary brain tumor syndromes -- Growth factors in brain tumors -- Aniogenesis in brain tumors -- Invasion in brain tumors -- Molecular genetics of brain tumors -- Predicting medulloblastoma outcome -- Predictive markers in human gliomas -- Molecular neuropathology -- Molecular markers of metastatic disease -- Stem cell biology and brain tumors -- Issues regarding death and dying in brain tumor patients
[edited by] Peter M. Black, Jay S. Loeffler.
Includes bibliographical references and index.