Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 2

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION. I. BIOMARKERS AND DIAGNOSIS. Chapter  2. GLIOMAGENESIS: ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF BIOMARKERS. Chapter  3. MOLECULAR SUBTYPES OF GLIOMAS. Chapter  4. GLIOBLASTOMA: GERMLINE MUTATION OF TP53. Chapter  5. GLIOMAS: ROLE OF THE TP53 GENE. Chapter  6. THE ROLE OF IDH1 AND IDH2 MUTATIONS IN MALIGNANT GLIOMAS. Chapter  7. MALIGNANT GLIOMA: ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASES 1 AND 2  MUTATIONS. Chapter  8. METABOLIC DIFFERNCES IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF GLIOMA SAMPLES. Chapter  9. GLIOBLASTOMA PATIENTS: ROLE OF METHYLATED MGMT. Chapter  10. BRAIN TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS AND GLIOMA GRADING: ROLE OF TUMOR BLOOD VOLUME AND PERMEABILITY ESTIMATES USING PERFUSION CT. Chapter 11.  VASCULOGENIC MIMICRY IN GLIOMA. Chapter 12. NEWLY DIAGNOSED GLIOMA: DIAGNOSIS USING POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY WITH METHIONINE AND FLUOROTHYMIDINE. Chapter  13. ROLE OF DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING IN DIFFERENTIATION OF GLIOBLASTOMAS FROM  SOLITARY BRAIN METASTASES. Chapter  14. I-TM-601 SPECT IMAGING OF HUMAN GLIOMA. Chapter  15. ASSESSMENT OF BIOLOGICAL TARGET VOLUME USING POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN HIGH-GRADE GLIOMA PATIENTS. Chapter  16. SKIN METASTASES OF GLIOBLASTOMA. II. THERAPY. Chapter 17. DIFFUSE LOW-GRADE GLIOMAS. WHAT DOES “COMPLETE RESECTION” MEAN? Chapter 18. QUANTITATIVE APPROACH OF THE NATURAL COURSE OF DIFFUSE LOW-GRADE GLIOMAS. Chapter  19. IMPACT OF RESECTION EXTENT ON OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH HIGH-GRADE GLIOMAS. Chapter 20. RECURRENT MALIGNANT GLIOMAS: 5-AMINOLEVULINIC ACID FLUORESCENCE-GUIDED RESECTION. Chapter 21. GLIOMA SURGERY: INTRAOPERATIVE LOW FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING. Chapter  22. LOW-GRADE GLIOMAS: INTRAOPERATIVE ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS. Chapter  23. MALIGNANT GLIOMAS: PRESENT AND FUTURE THERAPEUTIC DRUGS. Chapter 24. RECURRENT MALIGNANTGLIOMA PATIENTS: TREATMENT WITH CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY AND SYSTEMIC THERAPY. Chapter  25. GLIOBLASTOMA: BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY. Chapter  26. GLIOBLASTOMA: ANTI-TUMOR ACTION OF CYCLOSPORINE A AND FUCTIONALLY RELATED DRUGS.Chapter 27. GLIOBLASTOMA PATIENTS: CHEMOTHERAPY WITH CISPLATIN, TEMOZOLOMIDE AND THALIDOMIDE. Chapter  28. GLIOBLASTOMA : ROLE OF GALECTIN- 1 IN CHEMORESISTANCE. Chapter  29. GLIOMA-INITIATING CELLS: INTERFERON TREATMENT. Chapter  30. GLIOBLASTOMA : ANTITUMOR ACTION OF NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC  CANNABINOIDS. Chapter  31. PATIENTS WITH RECURRENT HIGH-GRADE GLIOMA: THERAPY WITH COMBINATION OF BEVACIZUMAB AND IRINOTECAN. Chapter 32. MONITORING GLIOMAS IN VIVO USING DIFFUSION- WEIGHTED MRI DURING GENE THREAPY –INDUCED APOPTOSIS. Chapter 33. HIGH-GRADE GLIOMAS: DENDRITIC CELL THERAPY. Chapter 34. GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME: USE OF ADENOVIRAL VECTORS. Chapter 35. FISCHER-F98 GLIOMA MODEL: METHODOLOGY. Chapter  36. CELLULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTI-VEGF AND IL-6 THERAPY IN EXPERIMENTAL  GLIOMA. Chapter  37. ADULT BRAINSTEM GLIOMAS: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT . Chapter  38. USE OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN IN THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE IN GLIOMA PATIENTS. III. PROGNOSIS. Chapter 39. BRAINSTEM GLIOMAS: AN OVERVIEW. Chapter  40. TUMOR-ASSOCIATED EPILEPSY IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOMA. Chapter 41. CHRONIC EPILEPSY ASSOCIATED WITH BRAIN TUMORS: SURGICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY. Chapter 42. LOW-GRADE GLIOMAS: ROLE OF RELATIVE CEREBRAL BLOOD VOLUME IN MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION. Chapter 43. ANGIOCENTRIC GLIOMA- INDUCED SEIZURES: LESIONECTOMY.