Cancer of the Nervous System -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- I Epidemiology, Pathology, and Imaging of Brain Tumors -- Epidemiology of Primary Brain Tumors -- Neuropathology of Central Nervous System Tumors -- Clinical Presentation of Patients with Brain Tumors -- Imaging in Central Nervous System Tumors -- Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in the Evaluation of Adult Primary Brain Tumors -- Positron Emission Tomography for the Management of Brain Tumors -- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Its Use in Brain Tumor Diagnosis and Therapy -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Neurosurgery -- II Principles of Brain Tumor Management and Therapy -- Principles of Pediatric Brain Tumor Surgery -- Principles of Brain Tumor Surgery in Adults -- Image-guided Surgery -- Principles of Brain Tumor radiotherapy -- Biologic-based Brain Tumor Therapy -- Chemotherapy for Central Nervous System Tumors -- Immunotherapy for Malignant Gliomas -- Gene Therapy -- Management of Non-Neoplastic Problems in Brain Tumor Patients -- Psychiatric Management of Brain Tumor Patients -- III Specific tumor types and their Treatment -- Meningiomas: Natural History, diagnosis, and imaging -- Meningioma: Surgery -- Meningioma: Skull Base Surgery -- Radiosurgery in the Treatment of Meningiomas -- Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Meningiomas -- Medical Management of Meningiomas -- Vestibular Schwannoma: Overview of Natural History and Diagnosis -- Surgery in the Treatment of Vestibular Schwannoma -- Radiosurgery in the Treatment of Vestibular Schwannomas -- Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Acoustic Neuromas -- Vestibular Schwannomas in the Setting of Neurofibromatosis Type 2 -- Medical Management of Pituitary Adenomas -- Surgery for Pituitary Adenoma1 -- Fractionated Conformal Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Pituitary Tumors.

Craniopharyngiomas -- Nerve Sheath Tumors of the Spine -- LowGrade Supratentorial Glioma -- Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas of the Chiasm and Cerebellum -- Malignant Gliomas -- Sarcomas -- Ependymomas -- Medulloblastoma and Other Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors -- Hemangioblastoma -- Tumors of the Pineal Region -- Central Nervous System Lymphoma in AIDS and NonAIDS Patients -- Gliomas of the Spine -- Vertebral Body Tumors -- Rare Malignant Brain Tumors -- Surgery for Brain Metastases -- Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases -- Epidural Disease -- Neoplastic Meningitis -- Paraneoplastic Disorders of the Nervous System -- IV Basic and Applied Biology of Brain Tumors -- Hereditary Brain Tumor Syndromes -- Growth Factors in Brain Tumors -- Angiogenesis in Brain Tumors -- Invasion in Brain Tumors -- Molecular Genetics of Brain Tumors -- Predicting Medulloblastoma Outcome -- Predictive Markers in Human Gliomas -- Molecular Neuropathology -- Molecular Markers of Metastatic Disease -- Stem Cell Biology and Brain Tumors -- Issues Regarding Death and Dying in Brain Tumor Patients.