High-Grade Gliomas Diagnosis and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barnett, Gene H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Series: Current Clinical Oncology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Neurosurgery.; Medicine & Public Health.

This is truly an exciting time in the field of neuro-oncology, particularly in the area of hi- grade gliomas. The management of patients with high-grade gliomas has historically been one of the most challenging and disheartening fields in medicine, where failure is the rule and longevity is the exce...

Table of Contents:

• Classification of High-Grade Glioma
• Histologic Classification of High-Grade Gliomas
• Molecular Classifications
• Clinical Characteristics
• Pediatric High-Grade Glioma
• Adult High-Grade Glioma
• Diagnostic Tools for High-Grade Glioma
• Computerized Tomography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• Imaging Tumor Biology
• Nuclear Imaging of Gliomas
• Magnetoencephalography
• Management
• General Considerations
• Surgical Techniques
• Radiation Therapy
• Brachytherapy
• Radiosurgery
• Chemotherapy
• Nursing Considerations
• Contemporary Investigational Treatments
• Convection-Enhanced Delivery
• Immunotoxins for Glioma Therapy
• Small Molecule Agents
• Cytokine Immuno-Gene Therapy for Malignant Brain Tumors
• Monoclonal Antibodies
• Clinical Trials of Oncolytic Viruses for Gliomas
• Biological Modifiers
• Gene Therapy
• Boron Neutron Capture Therapy of Brain Tumors
• Photodynamic Therapy.