Malignant Brain Tumours [Paperback]

Malignant Brain Tumours is an excellent compendium of current thought and practice for clinicians, surgeons, and scientists. Additionally, it is an invaluable reference for graduate and post-graduate students. This book could also be used as a very comprehensive teaching text.Malignant Brain Tumours is an excellent compendium of current thought and practice for clinicians, surgeons, and scientists. Additionally, it is an invaluable reference for graduate and post-graduate students. This book could also be used as a very comprehensive teaching text.1 Cellular and Molecular Approaches to the Study of Gliomas and Glial Development.- Glial cell development in the rat optic nerve.- Control of self-renewal in the O-2A lineage.- Glial and neuronal development in the retina and cortex.- Ramifications of current development studies for neuropathology.- A serological analysis of gliomas.- Glioma-derived cells can be divided into two superfamilies on the basis of antigen expression.- Antigenic and morphological analyses of gliomas yield conflicting classification systems.- Potential for positive feedback loops as contributors to growth of gliomas.- Conclusion.- References.- 2 Molecular Genetics of Brain Tumours.- Genetic techniques in studies of brain tumours.- Molecular basis of tumorigenesis.- Molecular genetics of benign brain tumours.- Cytogenetic and molecular genetic studies of malignant brain tumours: gliomas.- Oncogenes and gliomas.- Molecular genetics of neuroblastomas.- Conclusion.- References.- 3 Current Concepts of the Histopathological Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System.- Tumours of neuroepithelial tissue.- Astrocytic tumours.- Astrocytomas: fibrillary; protoplasmic; gemistocytic (neuroimaging correlations).- Anaplastic astrocytoma.- Glioblastoma multiforme: giant cell glioblastoma; gliosarcoma.- Pilocytic astrocytoma.- Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma.- Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma.- Oligodendroglial tumours.- Oligodendroglioma.- Anaplastl3<