Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 10

1. Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region
Alejandro Fernández Coello, Alberto Torres Díaz, Susana Boluda Casas, Juan José Acebes Martín

2. Pineal Region Tumors: Clinical Aspects
Nalan Yazici, Ali Varan

3. Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region: Diagnosis
Hirohito Yano, Toru Iwama

4. Pineal Parenchymal Tumors: Immunohistochemistry
Wiesław Marcol, Izabela Malinowska, Joanna Lewin-Kowalik, Katarzyna Kotulska, Wiesława Grajkowska, Magdalena Larysz-Brysz, Marek Mandera

5. Pineal Parenchymal Tumors: Diagnostics and Prognosis
Wiesław Marcol, Marek Mandera, Joanna Lewin-Kowalik, Izabela Malinowska, Grzegorz Kiwic

6. Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region: Diagnosis and Treatment
Alfonso Cerase, Sara Leonini

7. Pineal Region Tumors: Optimal Neurosurgical Treatment
Kemal Dizdarevic

8. Pituitary Tumors: Genetics and Heritable Predisposition
Ricky R. Kalra, Philipp Taussky, Toba Niazi, William Couldwell

9. Xanthogranulomas Associated with Pituitary Adenomas: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hiroshi Nishioka, Makoto Shibuya

10. Pituitary Adenoma and Craniopharyngioma: An Overview
Murat Gokden

11. Familial Pituitary Adenomas: An Overview
Vladimir Vasilev, Adrian Daly, Albert Beckers

12. Papillary Glioneuronal Tumor
Daniel C. Dim

13. Solitary Fibrous Tumors
Guilherme Geib, Tania W. Furlanetto

14. Pituitary Adenomas: MCM2 Protein as a Cell Proliferation Marker
Miriam Costa Oliveira, Cristina Micheletto Dallago

15. Pituitary Adenomas: Role of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitors
Katsuhiko Yoshimoto, Takeo Iwata, Noriko Mizusawa, Zhi Rong Qian, Shahidan Wan Nazatul Shima, Shinji Ono, Kyoko Ishimoto

16. Pituitary Tumorigenesis: Role of Regulation of Wee1 Kinase by microRNAs
Henriett Butz, Attila Patocs

17. Pituitary Tumor Cells: Role of PKCα, PKCδ and PKCε Expression
Juan Pablo Petiti, Alicia Inés Torres

18. Pituitary Adenoma: Role of HMGA Proteins
Monica Fedele, Alfredo Fusco

19. Pituitary Adenomas: Role of E-Cadherin in Tumor Invasion
Marianne S. Elston

20. Pituitary Tumorigenesis: Role of the Wnt Signaling Pathway
Marianne S. Elston

21. The Role of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR) and AHR-Interacting Protein (AIP) in the Pathogenesis of Pituitary Adenomas
Marie-Lise Jaffrain-Rea, Albert Beckers

22. Pituitary Tumors: Role of Pituitary Tumor-Transforming Gene-1 (PTTG1)
Cuiqi Zhou

23. Pituitary Adenomas: Endoscopic Endonasal Transphenoidal Technique
Savas Ceylan, Ihsan Anik

24. Pituitary Adenoma Patients: Hypofractionated Cyberknife Radiosurgery (Method)
M. Yashar S. Kalani, Andrew S. Little, David G. Brachman, William L. White

25. Transsphenoidal/Transcranial Surgery of Pituitary Adenomas: Prognosis-Related Occurence for the Trigemino-Cardiac Reflex
Belachew Arasho, Toma Spiriev, Nora Sandu, Christoph Nöthen, Andreas Filis, Pooyan Sadr-Eshkevari, Hemanshu Prabhakar, Michael Buchfelder, Bernhard Schaller

26. Spinal Extradural Meningiomas
Amgad Hanna, Phi Nguyen, Harminder Singh, James Harrop

27. Spinal Cord Ganglioglioma
Lee Hwang, Sina Tok, George Jallo

28. Spinal Angiolipoma: Diagnosis and Treatment
Miguel Gelabert-González, Ramón Serramito-Garcia, Eduardo Aran-Echabe

29. Spinal Cord Injury: Tissue Engineering Using Neural Stem Cells
Deniz Yucel, Irem Ayse Kanneci, Damla Arslantunali, Gamze Torun Kose, Vasif Hasirci

30. Pediatric Spinal Tumors: Total Removal Using Laminotomy
Yusuf Izci

31. Treatment of Metastatic Spinal Epidural Disease: Surgery Versus Radiotherapy
Chester K. Yarbrough, Wilson Z. Ray, Meic H. Schmidt

32. Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression from Synovial Sarcoma: Surgical Resection
Karen K. Anderson, Paul M. Arnold, Maura F. O’Neil

33. Adult Spinal Intramedullary Ependymomas: Complete Resection
Hyun-Jib Kim, Seung-Jae Hyun, Sang Hoon Yoon, Ki-Jeong Kim

34. Spinal Intramedullary Astrocytomas: Prognostic Factors
Vladimír Beneš, Pavel Buchvald, Petr Suchomel

Keywords: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Biomedicine general, Oncology, Neurobiology, Medicine/Public Health, general