Chemotherapy of gliomas : : Basic research, experiences and results / / ed. by C. Langmaid, D. Voth, P. Glees, P. Krauseneck.
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- I. Special and comparative pathology of the gliomas – experimental findings -- Classification of supratentorial gliomas -- Remarks on classification and "grading" (Brief communication) -- Problems in the histological grading of human gliomas -- Comparative aspects of spontaneous gliomas in animals (Brief communications) -- Cell-mediated immune response during progressive glioma growth -- Application of immunohistological techniques to the diagnosis of gliomas -- Flow cytometry and micronucleus formation in brain tumours -- Comparative impulsecytophotometric DNA investigations of glioblastomas, oligodendrogliomas and astrocytomas -- Repair of O6-alkylguanine in cellular DNA: significance for tumour induction and chemotherapy -- Escape phenomenon of glioma cells to allogenic lymphocytes and rhythmically altered protein synthesis encoded by signal transfer -- Microscopical investigations on cell death in experimental gliomas in rats -- Human glioma xenografts in nude mice: experimental model for pre-clinical chemo-radiotherapy studies -- Mononuclear infiltrates in human brain tumours – possible morphological equivalence of an immunological defence reaction -- II. General and specialised diagnostic methods for intrinsic brain tumours -- Correlation between grade of malignancy of gliomas and their computer tomographic density values -- Cerebral gliomas studied with positron emission tomography -- Remarks on the follow-up of cerebellar astrocytomas (Brief communication) -- Cerebral cysticercosis – a contribution to the differential diagnosis of supratentorial and infratentorial gliomas -- Measurement of intracranial pressure. Technique and indications -- Intracranial pressure monitoring in postoperative treatment of supratentorial and infratentorial gliomas (Brief communication) -- EEG, SEP and VEP examinations during the treatment of malignant gliomas -- CEA and TPA in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with intracranial tumours -- Sensitivity of human malignant brain tumours to chemotherapeutic agents as detected by the pro-assay: preliminary results of an in vivo/in vitro correlation -- III. Principles of operative treatment and radiation therapy -- Changes induced in anaplastic gliomas and brain tissue as a result of treatment -- Microsurgical management of gliomas -- Management of malignant gliomas. A ten year survey at the Neurosurgical Department of Rennes -- Re-operating on malignant gliomas: Indications, problems and results -- The Ommaya reservoir and its significance for intrathecal cytostatic treatment. Surgical aspects and complications -- The significance of age as a factor in the prognosis of surgically treated cerebral gliomas (Brief communication) -- Quality of life following microsurgical removal of glioblastomas (Brief communication) -- Neuropsychological studies under the therapy of malignant gliomas -- Quality of life in patients with malignant brain tumours -- Postoperative rapid course irradiation of the glioblastoma -- CT-stereotactic interstitial irradiation therapy of non resectable and reentrant intracranial tumour in children and adolescents -- Treatment of astrocymatomas grade DI and IV with high-dose irradiation and misonidazole: preliminary report -- Reflections on the radiation treatment of gliomas -- Therapeutic results in malignant gliomas with special respect to radiotherapy -- Pseudo-recurrence in malignant brain tumours -- Histological-cytological study of the effects of misonidazole and some related substances on the nervous system -- Local, intratumoral chemotherapy of brain gliomas in the rat, using adriamycin – a preliminary report -- IV. Chemotherapy: Basic principles, experiences, results and alternative procedures -- Principles of cancer treatment with cytostatic agents (Brief communication) -- Chemotherapy of malignant gliomas – present state of treatment (Brief communication) -- Chemotherapy of malignant supratentorial gliomas in adult: a ten-year experience of the EORTC Brain Tumour Group -- Characterization of human malignant brain tumour cells in vitro and comparison of three different in vitro assays to determine their sensitivity to BCNU -- Combined modality treatment of operated astrocytomas grade 3–4. A prospective and randomized study of misonidazole and radiotherapy with two different radiation schedules and subsequent CCNU chemotherapy -- Chemotherapy of gliomas in adults and of medulloblastoma in children -- Combined radiation and polychemotherapy (COMP) in the postoperative treatment of high-grade supratentorial gliomas -- Combined chemotherapy of inoperable and operable malignant gliomas -- Mono-treatment of malignant glioma with a derivate of nitrosourea, ACNU (first results) -- Retrospective study on the effect of CCNU and radiotherapy in 44 patients with malignant glioma -- The treatment of brain tumours and brain metastases with a combination of Ifosfamid, BCNU and radiotherapy – preliminary results (Brief communication) -- Intra-arterial therapy of malignant gliomas with ACNU and BCNU in combination with phénobarbital protection (preliminary results) -- Critical analysis of therapy in long-term surviving patients with glioblastoma multiforme -- Preoperative chemo- and/or radiotherapy: its possible role in the treatment of malignant brain gliomas (Brief communication) -- The present state of development of multistage treatment of cancer. Fundamental principles of the two-stage regional hyperthermia technique, using the "Selectotherm" procedure, as well as the heat sensitisation of cancer tissue by means of hyperglycaemia (Brief communication) -- Hyperthermia-radiotherapy of the gliomas – a critical report -- Planning, realization and evaluation of clinical trials: some statistical aspects -- V. Summary of the present state of chemotherapy of the supratentorial gliomas -- List of contributors -- Author's index -- Subject index |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110883909 9783110637861 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110883909 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by C. Langmaid, D. Voth, P. Glees, P. Krauseneck. |
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