Intracranial metastases : current management strategies /
This is the first comprehensive textbook on intracranial metastases in over 20 years with an update on current methods for their management, including the use of newer technologies. Each of the various histological types of cancer metastasizing to the brain is presented separately in a detailed anal...
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Table of Contents:
- Management of intracranial metastases: history / Deric Minwoo Park, Jerome B. Posner
- The epidemiology of brain metastasis / Dima Suki
- The biology of brain metastasis / Isaiah J. Fidler
- Brain metastases: histopathologic evaluation and diagnostic pitfalls / Teresa Ribalta, Gregory N. Fuller
- Imaging of metastatic tumors of the brain / Norman E. Leeds, Edward F. Jackson, Ashok J. Kumar
- Intracranial metastases: medical management and prognostic factors / Susanne M. Arnold, Roy A. Patchell
- Surgical management and techniques / Frederick F. Lang
- Whole-brain radiation therapy / Ritsuko Komaki, Eric Chang
- Radiosurgery for single and multiple brain metastases / Minesh P. Mehta, Ivo Tremont-Lukats
- Stereotactic radiation of intracranial metastases / Griffith R. Harsh IV
- Chemotherapy for brain metastases / Sigmund H. Hsu, W.K. Alfred Yung
- Metastatic lung cancer / James L. Frazier, Ira M. Garonzik, Laurence D. Rhines
- Current management strategies in intracranial breast cancer metastasis / Stacy Moulder, David H. Johnson, Steven A. Toms
- Management of brain metastasis in malignant melanoma patients / Andrew A. Kanner, Gene H. Barnett
- Brain metastases from renal cell carcinoma / Fadi Hanbali, Jeffrey S. Weinberg
- Metastatic colorectal carcinoma / Vijayabalan Balasingam, Ian E. McCutcheon
- Brain metastasis from cancer of an unknown primary site / Robert J. Bohinski, Ronald E. Warnick
- Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis: diagnosis and management / Morris D. Groves, Jr.
- Brain metastases from gynecologic cancers / Maciej S. Lesniak, Alessandro Olivi
- Brain metastases from genitourinary cancer: germ cell, testicular, prostate and bladder cancer / Philip V. Theodosopoulos, James L. Rubenstein, Michael W. McDermott
- Brain metastasis from upper gastrointestinal tract cancers: esophageal, gastric, hepatic, gallbladder, and pancreatic / Jeffrey S. Weinberg, Renato Lenzi, Ziya L. Gokaslan
- Brain metastases from thyroid carcinoma and other endocrine malignancies / Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin
- Brain metastasis from sarcomas / Andrew E. Sloan, Michael Kraut
- Metastatic tumors of the skull base / Fadi Hanbali, Franco DeMonte
- Neuropsychological impact of the brain metastasis and its treatment / Anne E. Kayl, Christina A. Meyers
- Adjuvant approaches for preventing brain metastases / David G Menter, Anita L. Sabichi, Scott M. Lippman
- Intracranial metastases: management guidelines and decision making / Syed Enam, Jack P. Rock.