Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 13 Types of Tumors, Diagnosis, Ultrasonography, Surgery, Brain Metastasis, and General CNS Diseases

Volume 13: Pineal, Pituitary, and Spinal Tumors is organized in six sections, for convenience and quick access to critical information. Section I, Types of Tumors includes a chapter on molecular characterization of Embryonal tumors, a chapter on diagnosis of metastatic oligodendroglioma using fine-n...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Hayat, M.A (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 2014.
Colección:Tumors of the Central Nervous System ; 13.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface. I Types of tumors
  • Embryonal tumor: molecular characterization
  • Oligodendroglial tumors: intra-arterial chemotherapy
  • Metastatic oligodendroglioma: diagnosis with fine-needle Aspiration cytology
  • Management of hemangiopericytoma
  • Role of cyclooxygenase-2 in the development and growth of Schwannomas
  • Adult primary gliosarcoma: epidemiology
  • Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma in the central nervous system: Histological diagnosis
  • Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors (pnets)
  • Retinoblastoma and reproductive decisionmaking
  • Trigeminal nerualgia with cerebellopontine angle tumors. II Diagnosis
  • The concept of a preniche for cell counting in histopathologic slides of tumors
  • Computer systems for cell counting in histopathologic slides of Tumours of the central nervous system: advantages and limitations.III Ultrasonography
  • Intraoperative ultrasonography in tumor surgery. Advantage of intraoperative power doppler ultrasonography for intracranial tumors
  • Intraoperative ultrasound in neurosurgical oncology-scope and utility. IV Surgery
  • Resection of brain tumors: intraoperative confocal microscopy technology
  • Brainstem cavernomas, accessible lesions: surgery
  • The role of surgical resection for metastatic brain tumors. V Brain metastasis
  • Factors responsible for local recurrence of brain metastasis
  • Role of mmp2 in brain metastasis
  • Differentiating choroid plexus tumors from metastatic
  • Carcinomas: use of inwardly rectifying k+ channel kir7.1 and excitatory amino acid transporter-VI General diseases
  • Alexander disease: role of glial fibrillary acidic protein
  • Lipoma: an overview
  • Tumefactive demyelination
  • Immunotherapies for brain cancer: from preclinical models to human trials
  • The role of hyaluronic acid and its receptors invasion of brain tumors
  • Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain damage: human umbilical cord
  • Blood mononuclear cells transplantation
  • Pathological angiogenesis: an overview
  • Use of mobile phones and brain cancer risk in children? Index.