Neuro-oncology (eBook)

Edited by Roger J. Packer, MD, Center for Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine, Brain Tumor Institute, Gilbert Family Neurofibramatosis Institute, Children's National, Washington, DC, USA David Schiff, MD, Departments of Neurology, Neurological Surgery, and Medicine, University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA

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

"This is an excellent addition to any clinical library
that supports the care of patients with brain tumors. It fills a
void in a discipline that is undergoing rapid change in its
approach to treatment." (Doody's, 14
September 2012)