Central nervous system tumours of childhood /

Covers all clinical aspects of central nervous system (CNS) tumours in children, including epidemiology and neuroimaging, the general principles of surgery and radiotherapy/chemotherapy as well as palliative care and quality of life. It also includes diagnosis and management, important areas of rese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Estlin, Eddy, Lowis, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : [Cambridge] ; [New York] : Mac Keith Press ; Distributed by Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Colección:Clinics in developmental medicine ; no. 166.
Temas:
Tumors in children.
Central nervous system > Tumors.
Children.
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Child
Tumeurs chez l'enfant.
Système nerveux central > Tumeurs.
Enfants.
children (people by age group)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Children's Health.
MEDICAL > Pediatrics.
Children
Central nervous system > Tumors
Tumors in children
Hirnstammtumor
Hirntumor
Kind
Rückenmarkstumor
Tumor
Zentralnervensystem
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sect. I Introduction, and overview of diagnosis, biology and therapy
  • 1. Introduction / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
  • 2. The epidemiology of paediatric CNS tumours / GA Amos Burke
  • 3. Paediatric CNS tumours: neuroimaging / Shelley Renowden
  • 4. Pathology and molecular oncology of childhood CNS tumours / Lucy B. Rorke-Adams and Jaclyn A Biegel
  • 5. Molecular approaches to the understanding and treatment of childhood CNS tumours / Richard J Gilbertson
  • 6. Surgical management of CNS tumours in the paediatric population / Jerard Ross and John Thorne
  • 7. General principles of radiotherapy / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
  • 8. General principles of chemotherapy / Eddy Estlin
  • 9. Management of complications at presentation for children with CNS tumours / Stephen Lowis
  • Sect. II CNS tumours of childhood
  • 10. Low-grade and high-grade astrocytoma / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis
  • 11. Ependymoma / Ute Bartels, Douglas J Hyder, Annie Huang and Eric Bouffet
  • 12. Brainstem tumours / Carolyn R Freeman and Jean-Pierre Farmer
  • 13. Primitive neuroectodermal tumours / Stephen Lowis
  • 14. Intracranial germ cell tumours / Susanne J Rogers an Frank H Saran
  • 15. Choroid plexus papilloma and carcinoma / Stephen Lowis
  • - 16. Craniopharyngioma / Eddy Estlin
  • 17. Mixed neuronal tumours / Eddy Estlin
  • 18. Spinal cord tumours in children / Douglas H. Hyder, Peter B Dirks, Ute Bartels and Eric Bouffet
  • 19. Metastatic disease affecting the CNS / Stephen Lowis
  • Sect. III Late effects, rehabilitation and palliative care
  • 20. Late effects of CNS tumours / Adam Glaser and Gary Butler
  • 21. An overview of cerebral functioning and its application in the developing brain / Andrew Curran
  • 22. Palliative care / Erica Mackie
  • Sect. IV Summary
  • 23. Conclusions and future directions / Eddy Estlin and Stephen Lowis.

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