Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 10: Pineal, Pituitary, and Spinal Tumors (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface I. Pineal tumors 1. Papillary tumor of the pineal region 2. Pineal region tumors: clinical aspects 3. Papillary tumor of the pineal region: diagnosis 4. Pineal parenchymal tumors: immunohhistochemistry 5. Pineal parenchymal tumors: diagnostics and prognosis 6. Papillary tumors of the pineal region: diagnosis and treatment 7. Pineal region tumors: optimal neurosurgical treatment II. Pituitary tumors 8. Pituitary tumors: genetics and heritable predisposition 9. Xanthogranulomas associated with pituitary adenomas: magnetic resonance imaging 10. Pituitary adenoma and craniopharyngioma: an overview 11. Familial pituitary adenomas: an overview 12. Papillary glioneuronal tumor 13. Solitary fibrous tumor 14. Pituitary adenomas: mcm2 protein as a cell proliferation marker 15. Pituitary adenomas: role of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors 16. Pituitary tumorigenesis: role of regulation of wee1 kinase by micrornas 17. Pituitary tumor cells: role of pkc , pkcd, and pck expression 18. Pituitary adenoma: role of hmga proteins 19. Pituitary adenomas: role of e-cadherin in tumor invasion 20. Pituitary tumorigenesis: role of the wnt signaling pathway 21. The role of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (ahr) and ahr-interacting Protein (aip) in the pathogenesis of pituitary adenomas 22. Pituitary tumors: role of pituitary tumor- transforming gene-1 (pttg1) 23. Pituitary adenomas: endoscopic endonasal transphenoidal Technique 24. Pituitary adenoma patients: hypofractionated cyberknife Radiosurgery (method) 25. Transspheniodal/transcranial surgery of pituitary adenomas: Prognosis-related occurrence for the trigemino-cardiac reflex III. Spinal tumors 26. Spinal extradural meningiomas 27. Spinal cord ganglioglioma 28. Spinal angiolipoma: diagnosis and treatment 29. Spinal cord injury: tissue engineering using neural stem cells 30. Pediatric spinal tumors: total removal using laminotomy 31. Treatment of metastatic spinal epidural disease: surgery versus radiotherapy 32. Metastatic spinal cord compression from synovial sarcoma: surgical resection 33. Adult spinal intramedullary ependymomas: complete resection 34. Spinal intramedullary astrocytomas: prognostic factors Index.