Central nervous system tumours of childhood / edited by Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clinics in developmental medicine,
no. 166 |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 359 p. :; ill. (some col),. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sect. I Introduction, and overview of diagnosis, biology and therapy
- 1. Introduction / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
- 2. The epidemiology of paediatric CNS tumours / GA Amos Burke
- 3. Paediatric CNS tumours: neuroimaging / Shelley Renowden
- 4. Pathology and molecular oncology of childhood CNS tumours / Lucy B. Rorke-Adams and Jaclyn A Biegel
- 5. Molecular approaches to the understanding and treatment of childhood CNS tumours / Richard J Gilbertson
- 6. Surgical management of CNS tumours in the paediatric population / Jerard Ross and John Thorne
- 7. General principles of radiotherapy / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
- 8. General principles of chemotherapy / Eddy Estlin
- 9. Management of complications at presentation for children with CNS tumours / Stephen Lowis
- Sect. II CNS tumours of childhood
- 10. Low-grade and high-grade astrocytoma / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
- 11. Ependymoma / Ute Bartels, Douglas J Hyder, Annie Huang and Eric Bouffet
- 12. Brainstem tumours / Carolyn R Freeman and Jean-Pierre Farmer
- 13. Primitive neuroectodermal tumours / Stephen Lowis
- 14. Intracranial germ cell tumours / Susanne J Rogers an Frank H Saran
- 15. Choroid plexus papilloma and carcinoma / Stephen Lowis
- - 16. Craniopharyngioma / Eddy Estlin
- 17. Mixed neuronal tumours / Eddy Estlin
- 18. Spinal cord tumours in children / Douglas H. Hyder, Peter B Dirks, Ute Bartels and Eric Bouffet
- 19. Metastatic disease affecting the CNS / Stephen Lowis
- Sect. III Late effects, rehabilitation and palliative care
- 20. Late effects of CNS tumours / Adam Glaser and Gary Butler
- 21. An overview of cerebral functioning and its application in the developing brain / Andrew Curran
- 22. Palliative care / Erica Mackie
- Sect. IV Summary
- 23. Conclusions and future directions / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis.