Neuro-oncology: The EssentialsMark Bernstein, Mitchel S. Berger Endorsed by the Joint Tumor Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons & the Congress of Neurological Surgeons |
Contents
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Evaluation | 56 |
Metabolic ImagingThomas F Budinger and Kathleen M Brennan | 78 |
Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingElaine T Kiriakopoulos and David J Mikulis | 94 |
Surgical Strategies | 115 |
Gene TherapyAstrid Weyerbrock and Edward H Oldfield | 273 |
Novel Therapeutic StrategiesRoberta P Glick and Terry Lichtor | 289 |
Specific Problems Chapter 30 LowGrade GliomasMark Bernstein and Joseph Bampoe | 302 |
Malignant GliomaSyed A Enam Jack P Rock and Mark L Rosenblum | 309 |
Pilocytic Astrocytoma and Other Indolent TumorsJack P Rock | 319 |
Metastatic Brain TumorsFrederick F Lang David M Wildrick and Raymond Sawaya | 329 |
Pineal Region TumorsFelipe C Albuquerque Arun P Amar and Michael L J Apuzzo | 338 |
Brain Stem TumorsAlyssa T Reddy and Timothy B Mapstone | 352 |
Stereotactic BiopsyAbhaya V Kulkarni and Mark Bernstein | 122 |
Functional MappingG Evren Keles and Mitchel S Berger | 130 |
Complications of SurgeryRonald E Warnick | 148 |
Radiation | 160 |
Conventional RadiationGlenn S Bauman and David A Larson | 169 |
Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiation TherapyDouglas Kondziolka | 183 |
BrachytherapyNormand J Laperriere | 198 |
Boron Neutron Capture TherapyEdward R Laws Jr | 205 |
HyperthermiaPenny K Sneed | 218 |
Chemotherapy | 226 |
Intraarterial ChemotherapyJan C Buckner | 234 |
Intratumoral ChemotherapyJon D Weingart Laurence D Rhines and Henry Brem | 240 |
Photodynamic TherapyPaul J Muller and Brian C Wilson | 249 |
Hormonal TherapyWarren P Mason | 258 |
ImmunotherapyKevin O Lillehei | 264 |
Pediatric Posterior Fossa TumorsMichael D Taylor and James T Rutka | 363 |
Primary Central Nervous System LymphomaJeffrey J Raizer and Lisa M DeAngelis | 377 |
MeningiomasPeter Black | 384 |
Vestibular SchwannomasGerald A Grant and Marc R Mayberg | 390 |
Pituitary TumorsWilliam F Chandler | 399 |
CraniopharyngiomaKraig D Moore and William T Couldwell | 409 |
Skull Base TumorsAkio Morita and Laligam N Sekhar | 419 |
Peripheral Nerve TumorsLilyana Angelov and Abhijit Guha | 434 |
Spinal Cord and Spinal Column TumorsMichael G Fehlings and Sanjay C Rao | 445 |
Related Issues Chapter 45 Quality of Life of Brain Tumor PatientsChristina A Meyers | 466 |
Seizures Associated with Brain TumorsG Evren Keles and Mitchel S Berger | 473 |
Complications of Medical TherapySusan M Chang | 478 |
Thromboembolism in Brain Tumor PatientsDennis E Bullard | 486 |
Index | 497 |
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