Management of Childhood Brain Tumors [Paperback]

1. Introduction.- 2. Tumors of the Central Nervous System in Children.- 3. Diagnostic Radiology of Childhood Brain Tumors.- 4. Neurological Assessment.- 5. Endocrine and Systemic Manifestation of Brain Tumors in Children.- 6. Surgery.- 7. Radiotherapy.- 8. Pathophysiologic Basis for Brain Tumor Chemotherapy.- 9. Visual Pathway Gliomas.- 10. Craniopharyngiomas.- 11. Pituitary Adenomas in Childhood.- 12. Cerebral Hemisphere Glioma.- 13. Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors.- 14. Meningioma.- 15. Ependymomas.- 16. Intracranial Germ-Cell Tumors.- 17. Midline Intra-axial Tumors (Nuclear and Brainstem).- 18. Medulloblastoma.- 19. Cerebellar Astrocytomas.- 20. Brain Metastases.- 21. Recurrent Central Nervous System Tumors.- 22. Late Sequelae in Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumors.- 23. Long-term Neuropsychologic and Intellectual Sequelae in Brain Tumor Patients.- 24. Second Primary Tumors in Treated Patients.- Addendum to Chapter 2: Tumors of the central nervous system in children.Springer Book Archives