Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 4

1. Epidemiology of Primary Brain Tumors
Isabelle Baldi, Hugues Loiseau

2. Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors
Mohit Singh, Juliette Hukin

3. Epileptic Seizures and Supratentorial Brain Tumors in Children
Roberto Gaggero, Alessandro Consales, Francesca Fazzini, Maria Luisa Garrè, Pasquale Striano

4. Breast Cancer Metastasis to the Central Nervous System
Marc R. Matrana, Nuhad K. Ibrahim

5. Melanoma to Brain Metastasis: Photoacoustic Microscopy
Xinmai Yang, Mark Cohen

6. Extraaxial Brain Tumors: The Role of Genetic Polymorphisms
Luciana Oliveira Almeida

7. Central Nervous System Germ Cell Tumor
Takamitsu Fujimaki

8. Microvascular Gene Changes in Malignant Brain Tumors
Matthew L. Dashnaw, Kevin A. Walter, Eleanor B. Carson-Walter

9. Role of MicroRNA in Glioma
Yongping You, Ning Liu, Chunsheng Kang, Peiyu Pu, Zhen Fu

10. Glioblastoma Multiforme: Cryopreservation of Brain Tumor-Initiating Cells (Method)
Tan Boon Toh, Yuk Kien Chong, Beng Ti Ang, Carol Tang

11. Relationship Between Molecular Oncology and Radiotherapy in Malignant Gliomas (An Overview)
Filippo Alongi, Arturo Chiti, Pierina Navarria, Marta Scorsetti

12. High-Grade Brain Tumours: Evaluation of New Brain Lesions by Amino Acid PET
Robert Pichler, Sabine Spiegl-Kreinecker, Gabriele Wurm

13. Cyclic AMP Phosphodiesterase-4 in Brain Tumor Biology: Immunochemical Analysis
B. Mark Woerner, Joshua B. Rubin

14. Molecular Imaging of Brain Tumours Using Single Domain Antibodies
Abedelnasser Abulrob, Umar Iqbal, Boguslaw Tomanek, Danica Stanimirovic

15. Quantitative Analysis of Pyramidal Tracts in Brain Tumor Patients Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Rubén Cárdenes, Emma Muñoz-Moreno, Rosario Sarabia-Herrero, Daniel Argibay-Quiñones, Marcos Martín-Fernández

16. Differentiation Between Gliomatosis Cerebri and Low-Grade Glioma: Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Virginie Callot, Damien Galanaud, Patrick J. Cozzone

17. Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors: Diagnosis Using Quantitative FDG-PET
Elizabeth Shurell, Fritz C. Eilber

18. Tumor Resection Control Using Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Venelin M. Gerganov, Mario Giordano, Rudolf Fahlbusch, Madjid Samii, Amir Samii

19. Brain Tumors: Clinical Applications of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Raimund Kleiser, Janpeter Nickel, Rüdiger J. Seitz, Johannes Trenkler, Gabriele Wurm

20. Trigeminal Neuralgia: Diagnosis Using 3-D Magnetic Resonance Multi-Fusion Imaging
Toru Satoh, Keisuke Onoda, Isao Date

21. Epilepsy-Associated Brain Tumors: Diagnosis Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Horst Urbach

22. Growth of Malignant Gliomas In Vivo: High-Resolution Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Jinyuan Zhou

23. Resection of Brain Lesions: Use of Preoperative Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Tractography
Erik Magnus Berntsen, Asta Kristine Håberg

24. Paradigms in Tumor Bed Radiosurgery Following Resection of Brain Metastases
David Roberge, Luis Souhami

25. Rat Model of Malignant Brain Tumors: Implantation of Doxorubicin Using Drug Eluting Beads for Delivery
Thomas Brinker, Andrew Lewis

26. Electromagnetic Neuronavigation for CNS Tumors
Caroline Hayhurst

27. Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Intracranial Ependymomas
Hideyuki Kano, Ajay Niranjan, Douglas Kondziolka, John C. Flickinger, L. Dade Lunsford

28. Is Whole Brain Radiotherapy Beneficial for Patients with Brain Metastases?
Lucyna Kepka, Milena Kolodziejczyk

29. Triggering Microglia Oncotoxicity: A Bench Utopia or a Therapeutic Approach?
Tim Kees, Rodrigo Mora, Ivana Dokic, Johannes Noack, Anette Abschütz, Anne Régnier-Vigouroux

30. Preoperative Motor Mapping
Thomas Picht, Ayçe Atalay

31. Intraoperative Monitoring for Cranial Base Tumors
Ryojo Akagami, Charles Dong, Henrik Huttunen

32. Brain Tumours: Pre-clinical Assessment of Targeted, Site Specific Therapy Exploiting Ultrasound and Cancer Chemotherapeutic Drugs
Anthony P. McHale, Nikolitsa Nomikou

33. Headaches in Patients with Brain Tumors
David Fortin, Philippe Goffaux

34. Headache Associated with Intracranial Tumors
Luca Valentinis, Antonio Palmieri

35. Patients with Brain Cancer: Health Related Quality of Life
Philippe Goffaux, Kathya Daigle, David Fortin

36. Emerging Role of Brain Metastases in the Prognosis of Breast Cancer Patients
Amanda Hambrecht, Rahul Jandial, Josh Neman

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Neuroradiology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Pathology