Neuro-Oncology: Clinical and Experimental Aspects Proceedings of the International Symposium on Neuro-Oncology, Noordwijkerhout, the N

ISBN-13: 9789400989214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 261 str.

B. W. Ongerboer De Visser

Spis treści

1. Neuro-Oncology: An Overview.- 2. Involvement of the Nervous System in Metastatic Disease of Childhood.- 3. Indications for Stereotactic Biopsy in Brain Tumours.- 4. Immune Deposits in Sural Nerve Biopsies from Patients with Paraneoplastic Polyneuropathy.- 5. The Pathology of Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelopathies.- 6. Treatment of Brain and Spinal Metastases.- 7. The Role of Radiotherapy in the Management of Intra-Cerebral Metastases.- 8. Radiotherapy in Epidural Spinal Cord Compression.- 9. Epidural Spinal Cord Compression from Metastatic Tumor: An Analysis of eighty-three Patients treated with Radiation Therapy and Steroids.- 10. Growth Retardation as a Complication of Radiotherapy in Children with Brain Tumours.- 11. Neurosurgical Management of Spinal Metastases Causing Cord and Cauda Equina Compression.- 12. Chemotherapy and the Nervous System.- 13. Superimposed Viral Infection. The Behaviour of Herpes Viruses in Immunosuppressed Patients.- 14. Central Nervous System Metastases in Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung. A Review..- 15. CNS-Leukaemia Prophylaxis in Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.- 16. Abnormal CT-scans of the Brain in Children with ALL: The Role of Intravenous MTX Therapy.- 17. Pathology of Central-Nervous-System Diseases in Childhood Leukemia.- 18. Cerebro-Meningeal Complications in Non-Hodgkin-Lymphoma and Adult Myeloid Leukemia.- 19. Subdural Haematoma due to Meningeal Metastasis.- 20. Clinical Aspects of Meningeal Carcinomatosis.- 21. Treatment of Meningeal Leucaemia, Meningeal Lymphoma and Carcinomatosis.- Short Communications.- 22. The Role which Viruses may play in the Causation of Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes.- 23. CSF Cytology in Secondary CNS Malignancies.