Main description:

Meningiomas, Volume 169, Part One, serves as a comprehensive review of the neurosurgical issues surrounding this extremely common brain tumor. Few procedures in surgery are more immediately formidable than an attack upon a large tumor of this type. In this volume of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, experts in the field - from basic scientists to skilled neurosurgeons - have provided up-to-date synopses of each topic as it relates to this class of tumor. Surgical and radiation therapy, which remain the mainstays of treatment, are a major focus, but coverage also includes potential molecular avenues for the development of effective medical treatments.

Contents:

SECTION I. Clinical and Basic Science
1. Epidemiology of meningiomas
2. Arachnoid and dural reflections
3. Venous anatomy of the supratentorial compartment
4. Venous anatomy of the infratentorial compartment
5. Pathology of meningiomas
6. Molecular genetics of meningiomas
7. Inherited genetic syndromes and meningiomas
8. Preclinical models of meningioma: Cell culture and animal systems
9. Meningioma: Signaling pathways and tumor growth

SECTION II. Imaging
10. Vascularity of meningiomas
11. Computed tomographic imaging of meningiomas
12. Modern day imaging of meningiomas
13. Angiography and embolization of meningiomas

SECTION III. Clinical Considerations for Meningiomas
14. Natural history of intracranial meningiomas
15. Current decision-making in meningiomas
16. Meningiomas in children
17. Meningiomas in the elderly
18. Radiation-induced meningiomas
19. Anesthesia for meningioma surgery