Oncology of CNS Tumors

Part I. Cranial Neuro-Oncology

1. Pathology and Classification of Tumors of the Nervous System
Guido Reifenberger, Ingmar Blümcke, Torsten Pietsch, Werner Paulus

2. Targeted Therapies
Manfred Westphal, Katrin Lamszus

3. Tumors of the Skull
Roland Goldbrunner

4. Meningiomas and Meningeal Tumors
Manfred Westphal, Katrin Lamszus, Jörg Christian Tonn

5. Low-Grade Astrocytomas
Nader Sanai, Mitchel S Berger

6. Stereotactic Brachytherapy in Low-Grade Gliomas
Friedrich W. Kreth, Jan H. Mehrkens

7. High-Grade Astrocytoma/Glioblastoma
Jon D. Weingart, Matthew J. McGirt, Henry Brem

8. Oligodendroglioma
Silvia Hofer, Caroline Happold, Michael Weller

9. Ependymomas and Ventricular Tumors
Manfred Westphal

10. Medulloblastoma-PNET, Craniopharyngioma Adult Tumors of Pediatric Origin
Aurelia Peraud, Jörg-Christian Tonn, James T. Rutka

11. Glioneuronal Tumors
Matthias Simon, Rudolf A. Kristof, Johannes Schramm

12. Inactive Adenomas
John A. Jane, Aaron S. Dumont, Jason P. Sheehan, Edward R. Laws

13. Functioning Adenomas
Dieter K. Lüdecke, Takumi Abe, Jörg Flitsch, Stephan Petersenn, Wolfgang Saeger

14. Tumors of the Pineal Region
Yutaka Sawamura, Ivan Radovanovic, Nicolas Tribolet

15. Tumors of the Cranial Nerves
Berndt Wowra, Jörg-Christian Tonn

16. Hemangioblastoma and Von Hippel–Lindau Disease
Juha E. Jääskeläinen, Mika Niemelä

17. Tumors of the Skull Base
Kadir Erkmen, Ossama Al-Mefty, Badih Adada

18. Orbital Tumors
Christoph Hintschich, Geoff Rose

19. Primary CNS Lymphoma
Joachim M. Baehring, Uwe Schlegel, Fred H. Hochberg

20. Brain Metastasis
Zeena Dorai, Raymond Sawaya, W. K. A. Yung

Part II. Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

21. Neurocutaneous Syndromes
Paul Kongkham, James T. Rutka

22. Supratentorial Hemispheric Low-Grade Gliomas in Children
Paul Chumas, Atul Tyagi

23. Optic Gliomas
Ian F. Pollack, Regina I. Jakacki

24. Thalamic Gliomas
Christian Sainte-Rose, Darach W. Crimmins, Jacques Grill

25. Midbrain Gliomas
A. Leland Albright, Brandon G. Rocque

26. Supratentorial High-Grade Gliomas
Phiroz E. Tarapore, Anu Banerjee, Nalin Gupta

27. Ganglioglioma
Concezio Di Rocco, Gianpiero Tamburrini

28. Cerebellar Astrocytomas
David F. Bauer, John C. Wellons

29. Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas
Milind Ronghe, Takaaki Yanagisawa, Eric Bouffet

30. Dorsally Exophytic Brain Stem Gliomas
Ian D. Kamaly-Asl, James M. Drake

31. Cervicomedullary Gliomas
Jeffrey C. Mai, Richard G. Ellenbogen

32. Desmoplastic Infantile Gangliogliomas
Jeffrey P. Blount, David F. Bauer

33. Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma
Jean-Pierre Farmer, Michele Parolin

34. Hypothalamic Hamartoma
Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, A. Simon Harvey

35. Ependymomas
Nicholas Wetjen, Corey Raffel

36. Medulloblastoma
Shobhan Vachhrajani, Michael D. Taylor

37. Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors
Ash Singhal, Shahid Gul, Paul Steinbok

38. Dysembryoplastic Neuroectodermal Tumors
Aurelia Peraud, Jörg-Christian Tonn, James T. Rutka

39. Meningiomas in Children
Abhaya V. Kulkarni, Patrick J. McDonald

40. Pineal Region Tumors in Children
Anna J. Janss, Timothy B. Mapstone

41. Pituitary Tumors in Children
Nader Pouratian, Aaron S. Dumont, Jay Jagannathan, John A. Jane

42. Craniopharyngiomas
Rémy Effenterre, Anne-Laure Boch

43. Intracranial Germ Cell Tumors
Kyu-Chang Wang, Seung-Ki Kim, Sung-Hye Park, In-One Kim, Ji Hoon Phi, Byung-Kyu Cho

44. Choroid Plexus Tumors
Paul Kongkham, James T. Rutka

45. Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors of the CNS
Michael R. Carter

46. Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
Walter J. Hader, Clare Gallagher

47. Tumors of the Skull Base in Children
Eve C. Tsai, Gregory Hawryluk, James T. Rutka

48. Tumors of the Cranial Vault in Children
John R. W. Kestle

49. Epidural Spinal Tumors in Children
Krystal Thorington, Colin Kazina, Patrick McDonald

50. Spinal Column Tumors
Joshua J. Chern, Andrew Jea, William E. Whitehead, Anna Illner

51. Pediatric Spinal Intradural Extramedullary Tumors
Peter Dirks

52. Intramedullary Spinal Tumors in Children
John S. Myseros

53. Peripheral Nerve Tumors in Children
Forrest Hsu, Rajiv Midha

Part III. Spinal Neuro-Oncology

54. Intramedullary Tumors
Manfred Westphal

55. Intradural Extramedullary Tumors
Roland Goldbrunner

56. Epidural Tumors and Metastases
Rory J. Petteys, Wesley Hsu, Carlos A. Bagley, Ziya L. Gokaslan

57. Spinal Robotic Radiosurgery
Alexander Muacevic, Bernd Wowra, Jörg-Christian Tonn

Part IV. Peripheral Nerve Tumors

58. Peripheral Nerve Tumors
Joseph Wiley, Asis Kumar Bhattacharyya, Gelareh Zadeh, Patrick Shannon, Abhijit Guha

Part V. Systemic and General Aspects of Neuro-Oncology

59. General Care of Patients with Cancer Involving the Central Nervous System
Stuart A. Grossman

60. Palliative Care in Neuro-Oncology
G. D. Borasio, C. Bausewein, S. Lorenzl, R. Voltz, M. Wasner

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Oncology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Surgical Oncology