INDICE: List of Contributors, xxxForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsSection I: Overview and General Aspects of Theory1 Diagnosis of Brain Tumors: Clinical and RadiographicIsabel Arrillaga-Romany, Eudocia Quant Lee and Patrick Y. Wen2 Epidemiology and EtiologyMelissa L. Bondy, Yanhong Liu and Michael Scheurer3 General Aspects of SurgeryBrian Williams, Robert Louis and Mark Shaffrey4 General Approach to Radiation OncologyJennifer S. Yu and Daphne Haas-Kogan5 General Aspects of Chemotherapy including "Biologic Agents"Jethro Hu and Santosh KesariSection II: Adult Nervous System Tumors6 Malignant Gliomas in AdulthoodMichael Ivan, Matthew Tate, and Jennifer Clarke7 LGG and Oligodendrogliomas in AdulthoodDerek R Johnson and Kurt A. Jaeckle8 EpendymomasKanwal P.S. Raghav and Mark Gilbert9 Germ Cell Tumors and Other Pineal Region TumorsGeneviève Legault and Jeffrey C. Allen10 Sellar Tumors: Pituitary Adenomas and CraniopharyngiomasRobert G. Louis and Robert Dallapiazza and John Jane Jr.11 MeningiomasWendy Sherman and Jeffrey Raizer12 Intradural Spinal Cord TumorsBen Shofty, Akiva Korn, Zvi Lidar and Shlomi ConstantiniSection III: Pediatric Brain Tumors13 Gliomas in ChildhoodBruce H. Cohen14 Embryonal TumorsRoger J. Packer15 Infantile Brain TumorsAlyssa ReddySection IV: Systemic Concerns to the CNS and Treatment Sequelea16 Primary Central Nervous System LymphomasJerome Graber and Antonio M.P. Omuro17 Intracranial MetastasesMary Welch and Thomas J. Kaley18 Spinal Cord CompressionMelike Mut19 Leptomeningeal MetastasesSean Grimm and Marc Chamberlain20 Immune Mediated Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders: An OverviewMyrna R. Rosenfeld and Josep Dalmau21 Neurotoxicity of Radiation Therapy and ChemotherapyEudocia C. Quant Lee
- ISBN: 978-0-470-65575-7
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 20/04/2012
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