Main description:

Tumors and cancers are insidious diseases characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their usual boundaries and disrupt the normal functions of affected organs. Forming the first of the four volumes devoted to tumors and cancers, this volume focuses on the central and peripheral nervous systems. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular type in relation to its definition, biology, epidemiology, disease mechanism/pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Contents:

Introductory remarks. Tumors of neuroepithelial tissue. Astrocytoma. Glioblastoma. Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma. Chordoid glioma, angiocentric glioma, and diffuse midline glioma. Astroblastoma. Gliomatosis cerebri. Oligodendroglioma. Oligoastrocytoma. Ependymoma. Choroid plexus tumors. Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor. Gangliocytoma and Lhermitte-Duclos disease. Ganglioglioma. Neurocytoma. Papillary glioneuronal tumor. Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor. Pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiation. Pineoblastoma, pineocytoma and papillary tumor of the pineal region. Medulloblastoma. CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumor and other embryonal tumors. Tumors of the cranial and paraspinal nerves. Neurofibroma. Perineurioma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. Schwannoma. Tumors of the meninges. Melanocytic tumors. Hemangiopericytoma and hemangioblastoma. Tumors of the sellar region. Craniopharyngioma.