Imaging of Brain Tumors with Histological Correlations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Drevelegas, Antonios (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Neuroradiology.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.

This volume provides a deeper understanding of the diagnosis of brain tumors by correlating radiographic imaging features with the underlying pathological abnormalities. All modern imaging modalities are used to complete a diagnostic overview of brain tumors with emphasis on recent advances in diagn...

Table of Contents:

• Epidemiology, histologic classification and clinical course of brain tumors
• Imaging modalities in brain tumors
• Molecular abnormalities in gliomas
• Clinical applications of fMRI and DTI in patients with brain tumors
• Low-grade gliomas
• High-grade gliomas
• Pineal tumors
• Embryonal tumors
• Tumors of the cranial nerves
• Meningeal tumors
• Central nervous lymphomas and hemopoietic neoplasms
• Masses of the sellar and junxtasellar region
• Brain metastases
• Scintigraphy in brain tumors.