Neuro-Oncology (Paperback)

List of Contributors, xxx

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Section I: Overview and General Aspects of Theory

1 Diagnosis of Brain Tumors: Clinical and Radiographic
Isabel Arrillaga-Romany, Eudocia Quant Lee and Patrick Y. Wen

2 Epidemiology and Etiology
Melissa L. Bondy, Yanhong Liu and Michael Scheurer

3 General Aspects of Surgery
Brian Williams, Robert Louis and Mark Shaffrey

4 General Approach to Radiation Oncology
Jennifer S. Yu and Daphne Haas-Kogan

5 General Aspects of Chemotherapy including "Biologic Agents"
Jethro Hu and Santosh Kesari

Section II: Adult Nervous System Tumors

6 Malignant Gliomas in Adulthood
Michael Ivan, Matthew Tate, and Jennifer Clarke

7 LGG and Oligodendrogliomas in Adulthood
Derek R Johnson and Kurt A. Jaeckle

8 Ependymomas
Kanwal P.S. Raghav and Mark Gilbert

9 Germ Cell Tumors and Other Pineal Region Tumors
Geneviève Legault and Jeffrey C. Allen

10 Sellar Tumors: Pituitary Adenomas and Craniopharyngiomas
Robert G. Louis and Robert Dallapiazza and John Jane Jr.

11 Meningiomas
Wendy Sherman and Jeffrey Raizer

12 Intradural Spinal Cord Tumors
Ben Shofty, Akiva Korn, Zvi Lidar and Shlomi Constantini

Section III: Pediatric Brain Tumors

13 Gliomas in Childhood
Bruce H. Cohen

14 Embryonal Tumors
Roger J. Packer

15 Infantile Brain Tumors
Alyssa Reddy

Section IV: Systemic Concerns to the CNS and Treatment Sequelea

16 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas
Jerome Graber and Antonio M.P. Omuro

17 Intracranial Metastases
Mary Welch and Thomas J. Kaley

18 Spinal Cord Compression
Melike Mut

19 Leptomeningeal Metastases
Sean Grimm and Marc Chamberlain

20 Immune Mediated Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders: An Overview
Myrna R. Rosenfeld and Josep Dalmau

21 Neurotoxicity of Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy
Eudocia C. Quant Lee