According to the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program, brain and
other nervous system tumors will account for an estimated 24,530 cancer diagnoses and …

Strategy has been deeply modified, mainly with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
ultrasonic aspiration, and, recently, with preoperative neurophysiology. But, one should not …

In this article, we respectively describe the morphology of the spinal cord, spinal meningeal
layers, main fiber tracts, and both arterial and venous distribution in order to explain signs of …

Background: Neurosurgical excision of brain tumors is still regarded as the first line
treatment for multiple neoplasms, including meningiomas, gliomas, and metastatic tumors …

The surgery of intraspinal tumors is by and large relatively simple compared with the surgery
of brain tumors. However, there are certain details of technique that deserve emphasis in the …

Pediatric intrameduUary spinal cord tumors occur infrequently with limited data on treatment
strategies and outcome. Over an 11-year period, 44 patients with such tumors who were …

Intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCTs) have specific clinical and pathological features
in children. A long clinical course of erratic pains, scoliosis, or both is common. Unlike in …

Only one-third of all primary intraspinal neoplasms are intrinsic to the spinal cord, attesting to
their rarity. Although the histological variation of these tumors is broad, the most common …

This volume contains information on the diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of spinal tumors.
Various aspects of different major types of spinal tumors (astrocytomas, ependymomas, and …