Research Catalog

Title

Cancer of the nervous system / [edited by] Peter M. Black, Jay S. Loeffler.

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Black, Peter McL.
• Loeffler, Jay S.

Description

xv, 891 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Subjects

• Central nervous system > Cancer
• Central Nervous System Neoplasms

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Epidemiology of brain tumors / Tracy T. Batchelor, Molly V. Dorfman and David J. Hunter -- 2. Neuropathology of central nervous system tumors / Umberto De Girolami and Thomas W. Smith -- 3. Clinical presentation of patients with brain tumors / Alison M. O'Neill -- 4. Imaging in central nervous system tumors / John W. Henson and R. Giliberto Gonzalez -- 5. Single photo emission computed topography in the evaluation of adult primary brain tumors / Richard B. Schwartz -- 6. Positron emission tomography for the management of brain tumors / Mark Levivier, David Wikler, Olivier De Witte, Nicolas Massager, Serge Goldman and Jacques Brotchi -- 7. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its use in brain tumor diagnosis and therapy / Andrea Pirzkall -- 8. Functional magnetic resonance imaging for neurosurgery / Steven Stufflebeam and Bruce L. Rosen -- 9. Principles of pediatric brain tumor surgery / Liliana C. Goumnerova -- 10. Principles of brain tumor surgery in adults / Raymond E. Sawaya and Jeffrey S. Weinberg -- 11. Image-guided surgery / Mark A. Spicer and Michael L. J. Apuzzo -- 12. Principles of brain tumor radiotherapy / Annie W. Chan -- 13. Biologic-based brain tumor therapy / Howard A. Fine -- 14. Chemotherapy for central nervous system tumors / Ravi D. Rao and Jan C. Buckner -- 15. Immunotherapy for malignant gliomas / John S. Yu, Moneeb Ehtesham and Keith L. Black -- 16. Gene therapy / Manish Aghi and Ennio Antonio Chiocca -- 17. Management of non-neoplastic problems in brain tumor patients / Patrick Y. Wen, Lisa M. MacDonald and Debra Conrad Gigas -- 18. Psychiatric management of brain tumor patients / Malcolm P. Rogers and Alejandro Y. Mendoza -- 19. Meningiomas : natural history, diagnosis, and imaging / Ross A. Goldstein, Michelle A. Jorden and Griffith R. Harsh IV -- 20. Meningioma : surgery / Ian F. Dunn and Peter McL. BLack -- 21. Meningioma : skull base surgery / Badih Adada and Ossama Al-Mefty -- 22. Radiosurgery in the treatment of meningiomas / Michael W. McDermott, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa and David A. Larson -- 23. Radiotherapy in the treatment of meningiomas / Dennis C. Shrieve and Jay S. Loeffler -- 24. Medical management of meningiomas / Uwe Schlegel -- 25. Vestibular schwannoma : overview of natural history and diagnosis / Robert G. Ojemann -- 26. Surgery in the treatment of vestibular schwannoma / Marc S. Schwartz and William E. Hitselberger -- 27. Radiosurgery in the treatment of vestibular schwannomas / John C. Flickinger, Douglas Kondziolka and L. Dade Lunsford -- 28. Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in the treatment of acoustic neuromas / Stephanie E. Weiss, Lawrence Kleinberg, Moody Wharham and Daniele Rigamonti -- 29. Vestibular schwannomas in the setting of neurofibromatosis type 2 / Mia MacCollin and Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov -- 30. Medical management of pituitary adenomas / Erik Alexander and Anne Klibanski -- 31. Surgery for pituitary adenoma / K. Michael Webb, Jeffrey J. Laurent, Edward R. Laws, Jr. and John A. Jane, Jr. -- 32. Fractionated conformal radiotherapy in the treatment of pituitary tumors / John M. Buatti, Sanford L. Meeks and Timothy R. Ryken -- 33. Craniopharyngiomas / A. Leland Albright -- 34. Nerve sheath tumors of the spine / Paul Klimo, Jr., Meic H. Schmidt and Richard G. Fessler -- 35. Low-grade supratentorial glioma / Glenn S. Bauman and Edward G. Shaw -- 36. Pediatric low-grade gliomas of the chiasm and cerebellum / Henry E. Aryan, Derek A. Bruce, Hal S. Meltzer and Michael L. Levy -- 37. Malignant gliomas / Ian F. Parney, David A. Larson, Eric Christopher Burton and Susan M. Chang -- 38. Sarcomas / Fred G. Barker II -- 39. Ependymomas / Joel W. Goldwein and Leslie N. Sutton -- 40. Medulloblastoma and other primitive neuroectodermal tumors / Sridharan Gururangan and Henry S. Friedman -- 41. Hemangioblastoma / Mika Niemela -- 42. Tumors of the pineal region / Jeffrey N. Bruce, Michael Richard Fetell and Casilda M. Balmaceda -- 43. Central nervous system lymphoma in AIDS and non-AIDS patients / Joachim M. Baehring and Fred H. Hochberg -- 44. Gliomas of the spine / Khalid M. Abbed and Lawrence F. Borges -- 45. Vertebral body tumors / Eric Woodard -- 46. Rare malignant brain tumors / Michael Schulder and Pallavi S. Uthukuri -- 47. Surgery for brain metastases / Tze-Ching Tan and Peter M. Black -- 48. Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for brain metastases / Minesh Mehta and Rakesh R. Patel -- 49. Epidural disease / Thomas N. Byrne -- 50. Neoplastic meningitis / Eric T. Wong -- 51. Paraneoplastic disorders of the nervous system / Edward J. Dropcho -- 52. Hereditary brain tumor syndromes / Christopher D. Turner and Christine A. Chordas -- 53. Growth factors in brain tumors / Johann C. Micallef, Gelareh Zadeh and Abhijit Guha -- 54. Angiogenesis in brain tumors / Kewal K. Jain -- 55. Invasion in brain tumors / Katharine J. Drummond -- 56. Molecular genetics of brain tumors / Jianhong Zhu, Helen Li Zhang and Eric T. Wong -- 57. Predicting medulloblastoma outcome / Stephanie Greene and Scott L. Pomeroy -- 58. Predictive markers in human gliomas / Arnab Chakravarti -- 59. Molecular neuropathology / Catherine L. Nutt and David N. Louis -- 60. Molecular markers of metastatic disease / George Perides and Julian K. Wu -- 61. Stem cell biology and brain tumors / Kadir Erkmen and Peter McL. Black -- 62. Issues regarding death and dying in brain tumor patients / Malcolm P. Rogers, Bernadino Vaccaro and Peter McL. Black.

ISBN

0781737311 (HC)

LCCN

2004048611

OCLC

• ocm55587230
• SCSB-5109807

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries