Bookedited by Mitchel S. Berger and Michael Weller.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Epidemiology
Ch. 2. Presenting signs and symptoms in brain tumors
Ch. 3. Neuroimaging
Ch. 4. Surgical approaches for the gliomas
Ch. 5. Histologic classification of gliomas
Ch. 6. Molecular classification of gliomas
Ch. 7. Next-generation molecular diagnostics
Ch. 8. Principles of radiation therapy
Ch. 9. Principles of pharmacotherapy
Ch. 10. Principles of immunotherapy
Ch. 11. Experimental therapies: gene therapies and oncolytic viruses
Ch. 12. Complications of glioma surgery
Ch. 13. Complications from radiotherapy
Ch. 14. Complications from pharmacotherapy
Ch. 15. Vascular complications in glioma patients
Ch. 16. Epilepsy and brain tumors
Ch. 17. Rehabilitation of patients with glioma
Ch. 18. Psycho-oncology
Ch. 19. Palliative care at the end-of-life in glioma patients
Ch. 20. Pilocytic astrocytomas
Ch. 21. Astrocytic gliomas WHO grades II and III
Ch. 22. Low-grade and anaplastic oligodendroglioma
Ch. 23. Glioblastoma
Ch. 24. Rare glial tumors
Ch. 25. Ependymoma: a heterogeneous tumor of uncertain origin and limited therapeutic options
Index.