Cancer of the nervous system /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2005]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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