Management of Childhood Brain Tumors
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4612-8807-7 (ISBN)
Unlike primary central nerv- penetration, thus allowing for the administra- ous system tumors in adults, many varieties of tion of accurate homogeneous high doses to childhood brain tumors have the propensity to large volumes without significant effects on the disseminate via the cerebrospinal fluid path- overlying skin and soft tissues. Preliminary data ways.
1. Introduction.- 2. Tumors of the Central Nervous System in Children.- 3. Diagnostic Radiology of Childhood Brain Tumors.- 4. Neurological Assessment.- 5. Endocrine and Systemic Manifestation of Brain Tumors in Children.- 6. Surgery.- 7. Radiotherapy.- 8. Pathophysiologic Basis for Brain Tumor Chemotherapy.- 9. Visual Pathway Gliomas.- 10. Craniopharyngiomas.- 11. Pituitary Adenomas in Childhood.- 12. Cerebral Hemisphere Glioma.- 13. Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors.- 14. Meningioma.- 15. Ependymomas.- 16. Intracranial Germ-Cell Tumors.- 17. Midline Intra-axial Tumors (Nuclear and Brainstem).- 18. Medulloblastoma.- 19. Cerebellar Astrocytomas.- 20. Brain Metastases.- 21. Recurrent Central Nervous System Tumors.- 22. Late Sequelae in Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumors.- 23. Long-term Neuropsychologic and Intellectual Sequelae in Brain Tumor Patients.- 24. Second Primary Tumors in Treated Patients.- Addendum to Chapter 2: Tumors of the central nervous system in children.
Reihe/Serie | Foundations of Neurological Surgery ; 3 |
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Zusatzinfo | XII, 523 p. |
Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten |
Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Neurochirurgie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4612-8807-X / 146128807X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4612-8807-7 / 9781461288077 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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