Neuro–oncology

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 Genevieve 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