Gliomas: handbook of clinical neurology series
Front Cover -- Gliomas -- Copyright -- Handbook of Clinical Neurology 3rd Series -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Section 1: Diagnosis and treatment -- Chapter 1: Epidemiology -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Glioma incidence by age and histologic subtype -- Differences in glioma...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier Science
2016
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| Series: | Handbook of clinical neurology
volume 134 |
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Handbook of clinical neurology (volume 134)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=4438753 Aggregator, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4438753 
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| Author Notes: | edited by Mitchel S. Berger, Michael Weller |
| Summary: | Front Cover -- Gliomas -- Copyright -- Handbook of Clinical Neurology 3rd Series -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Section 1: Diagnosis and treatment -- Chapter 1: Epidemiology -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Glioma incidence by age and histologic subtype -- Differences in glioma incidence by sex, ethnicity, and geographic location -- Incidence of molecular subgroups of glioma -- Inherited risk factors for glioma -- Hereditary cancer syndromes associated with glioma risk -- Genome-wide association studies of glioma -- Telomere maintenance and glioma Telomere biology and heritability of telomere length: -- Telomere length and risk of glioma -- Telomere lengthening and cancer -- Environmental and developmental risk factors -- Allergies, infections, and immunologic risk factors -- Ionizing radiation -- Nonionizing radiation -- Other investigated but inconclusive factors -- Patient survival following diagnosis -- Associations with age, tumor subtype, and treatment -- Prognostic markers -- Conclusions -- Gene abbreviations used -- References -- Chapter 2: Presenting Signs and Symptoms in Brain Tumors -- Introduction Generalized Symptoms And signs -- Headache -- Nausea and Vomiting -- Altered Mental Status -- Papilledema -- Seizure -- Clinical Features of Increased Intracranial Pressure -- CSF Obstruction -- Herniation Syndromes -- Localizing Symptoms and Signs of Intracranial Neoplasms -- Invasion From The skull -- Frontal-lobe Tumors -- General Features -- Temporal-lobe Tumors -- General Features -- Seizures -- Visual Deficits -- Dysphasia -- Cognitive and Memory Dysfunction -- Parietal-lobe Tumors -- Seizure -- Sensory Abnormalities -- Visual Disturbances -- Dyspraxia -- Dysphasia -- Occipital Tumors Diencephalic Tumors -- Pineal-region Tumors -- Mesencephalic Tumors -- Pontine Tumors -- Cerebellar Tumors -- Cerebellopontine Angle Tumors -- Medullary Tumors -- Spinal Cord Tumors -- References -- Chapter 3: Neuroimaging -- Introduction -- Conventional MRI in Glioma -- Astrocytic Tumors -- Diffuse low-grade Astrocytoma -- Anaplastic Astrocytoma -- Glioblastoma -- Oligodendroglial Tumors -- Oligodendroglioma -- Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma -- Ependymal Tumors -- Ependymoma -- Subependymoma -- Neuronal Tumors -- Ganglioglioma -- Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial tumor -- Central Neurocytoma Advanced MRI Techniques -- Diffusion-weighted Imaging -- Diffusion Tensor Imaging -- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- MR Perfusion Imaging -- Dynamic contrast-enhanced Imaging Techniques -- Dynamic Susceptibility contrast-enhanced Mri (Dsce-MRI) -- Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI -- Dynamic contrast-enhanced CT -- Arterial Spin Labeling -- Clinical Applications of MRI -- Distinguishing Glioma From Other Lesions -- Distinguishing Glioma From a Solitary Metastasis -- Distinguishing Glioma From Cerebral Abscess Distinguishing Glioma From Inflammatory Lesions |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9780128029978 |