Screen LibraryBrain tumors：practical guide to diagnosis and treatment
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Informa Healthcare,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Neurological disease and therapy ; 89 |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 557 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780849336164 (alk. paper) 0849336163 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R739 |
| CLC: | R739.4 |
| Call Number: | R739.4/B814 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Principles of neurosurgical therapy -- Principles of radiation therapy -- Principles of chemotherapy -- New approaches to brain tumor therapy -- Imaging in neurooncology -- Neurooncological syndromes -- Pathology and classification of tumors of the nevous system -- Astrocytic tumors -- Oligodendrolioma and mixed tumors -- Ependymal tumors -- Tumors of the choroid plexus -- Neuroepithelial tumors of unknown origin -- Neuronal and glioneuronal neoplasms of the central nervous system -- Pineal parenchymal tumors -- Embryonal tumors -- Peripheral neuroblastic tumors -- Meningiomas -- Malignant central nervous system neoplams of mesenchymal origin -- Primary lymphoma of the central nervous system -- Tumors of the sellar region: craniopharyngioma and pituitary adenoma -- Peripheral nerve sheath tumors -- Germinoma, nongermiomatous germ cell tumors -- Central nervous system metastases -- Increased intracranial pressure and extradural compression syndromes -- Leptomeningeal cancer -- Neurovascular complications of cancer -- Symptomatic epilepsy -- Cancer and the peripheral nervous system -- Neurological complications of cancer therapy -- Paraneoplastic autoimmunity affecting the nervous system. |