Intracranial Metastases (eBook, PDF)

Current Management Strategies
Redaktion: Sawaya, Raymond

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

* This is the first comprehensive textbook on intracranial metastases in over 20 years with an update on current methods for their management, including the use of newer technologies. * Each of the various histological types of cancer metastasizing to the brain is presented separately in a detailed analysis and discussion. * This volume includes a consideration of the epidemiology of brain metastases and the quality of life in patients who have them. * Special topics not previously covered are reviewed, including metastasis to the skull base and strategies for preventing cancer from metastasizing to the brain. * A novel feature is a chapter devoted to the use of recent techniques such as functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, MR spectroscopy (metabolite mapping), and dynamic susceptibility contrast imaging (regional cerebral blood volume mapping) to characterize brain metastases in terms of the sensorimotor perturbations they produce, their metabolic response to therapy, and their degree of vascularization, respectively.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405146142
• Artikelnr.: 38406105

Autorenporträt

Dr. Raymond Sawaya, MD., Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Medical Center, University of Texas, Houston

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. I. General. 1 Management of Intracranial Metastases: History. Deric Minwoo Park
MD and Jerome B. Posner
MD. 2 The Epidemiology of Brain Metastasis. Dima Suki
PhD. 3 The Biology of Brain Metastasis. Isaiah J. Fidler
DVM
PhD. 4 Brain Metastases: Histopathologic Evaluation and Diagnostic Pitfalls. Teresa Ribalta
MD
PhD and Gregory N. Fuller
MD
PhD. 5 Imaging of Metastatic Tumors of the Brain. Norman E. Leeds
MD
Edward F. Jackson
PhD
MS
BS
and Ashok J. Kumar
MD. . II. Principles of Therapy. 6 Intracranial Metastases: Medical Management and Prognostic Factors. Susanne M. Arnold
MD and Roy A. Patchell
MD. 7 Surgical Management and Techniques. Frederick F. Lang
MD
FACS. 8 Whole Brain Radiation Therapy. Ritsuko Komaki
MD
FACR and Eric Chang
MD. 9 Radiosurgery for Single and Multiple Brain Metastases. Minesh P. Mehta
MD and Ivo Tremont-Lukats
MD. . 10 Stereotactic Radiation of Intracranial Metastases. Griffith R. Harsh IV
MD. . 11 Chemotherapy for Brain Metastases. Sigmund H. Hsu
MD and W. K. Alfred Yung
MD. III. Specific Tumor Sites. 12 Metastatic Lung Cancer. James L. Frazier
ScB
Ira M. Garonzik
MD
and Laurence D. Rhines
MD. 13 Current Management Strategies in Intracranial Breast Cancer Metastasis. Stacy Moulder
MD
David H. Johnson
MD and Steven A. Toms
MD
MPH. 14 Management of Brain Metastasis in Malignant Melanoma Patients. Andrew A. Kanner
MD and Gene H. Barnett
MD. 15 Brain Metastases from Renal Cell Carcinoma. Fadi Hanbali
MD and Jeffrey S. Weinberg
MD. 16 Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma. Vijayabalan Balasingam MD
PhD
FRCS (C) and Ian E. McCutcheon MD
FRCS (C) . 17 Brain Metastasis from Cancer of an Unknown Primary Site. Robert J. Bohinski
MD
PhD and Ronald E. Warnick
MD. 18 Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis: Diagnosis and Management. Morris D. Groves
Jr.
MD
JD. 19 Brain Metastases from Gynecologic Cancers. Maciej S. Lesniak
MD and Alessandro Olivi
MD. 20 Brain Metastases from Genitourinary Cancer: Germ Cell
Testicular
Prostate and Bladder Cancer. Philip V. Theodosopoulos
MD
James L. Rubenstein
MD
and Michael W. McDermott
MD. 21 Brain Metastasis from Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers: Esophageal
Gastric
Hepatic
Gallbladder
and Pancreatic. Jeffrey S. Weinberg
MD
Renato Lenzi
MD
and Ziya L. Gokaslan
MD
FACS. 22 Brain Metastases From Thyroid Carcinoma and Other Endocrine Malignancies. Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin
MD. 23 Brain Metastasis From Sarcomas. Andrew E. Sloan
MD and Michael Kraut
MD. . IV. Special Considerations. 24 Metastatic Tumors of the Skull Base. Fadi Hanbali MD and Franco DeMonte MD
FRCSC
FACS. 25 Neuropsychological Impact of the Brain Metastasis and its Treatment. Anne E. Kayl
PhD and Christina A. Meyers
PhD
ABPP. 26 Adjuvant Approaches for Preventing Brain Metastases. David G. Menter
PhD
Anita L. Sabichi
MD
and Scott M. Lippman
MD. 27 Intracranial Metastases: Management Guidelines and Decision Making. Syed Enam
MD and Jack P. Rock
MD. Index

Rezensionen

Intracranial metastases are the commonest cerebral tumours. Untilnow, no effort has been made to summarise our knowledge ofintracranial metastases in the English language.

This title aims to fill the gap. Intracranial Metastasesis a multiauthored text by some of the best experts working in eachof the subject areas covered. The text is usefully divided intofour main sections. In the first section the biology, pathology,epidemiology, and neuroimaging of intracranial metastases areillustrated and thoroughly discussed. Of particular note is thefirst chapter on the history of treatment for intracranialmetastases. In the second section the different treatment optionsare analysed. New treatments are brought into focus, especiallythose not used by most physicians who routinely treat patients withintracranial metastases (ie, the treatment of intracranial multiplemetastases). The third section--of most interest for thetreating physician--describes the metastatic disease inrelation to the primary cancer. As a matter of fact, the clinicalcourse of intracerebral metastasis is determined, even if onlytemporarily, by the type of primary tumour. Of particular interestis the chapter on leptomeningeal localisation, which is a commoncause of controversy in the management and treatment ofintracranial metastases. In the last section, metastasis localisedin the cranial base and the neuropsychological features of thedisease are explained together with a clear-cut conclusion of thetext on management guidelines and decision-making. In brief, thepublication of this book is long overdue, and IntracranialMetastases should be considered a reference text for familyphysicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, oncologists, andradiotherapists. It is concise but exhaustive. This manual has allthe essential information for a correct management and therapy ofthis pathology. If there is one pitfall to this summary, I wouldsay that the bibliography is not always accurately updated. Thispublication clearly delineates which patients should be treated andfor how long, and will be important in helping physicians to avoidthe overtreatment of patients. Furthermore, this book may encouragetreating physicians to increase the number of patients they treat.Some of these patients will benefit from a few more months of goodquality of life and some others who have germinal metastasis mayeven be cured. I personally like the short summaries at the end ofeach chapter, which bring into focus what has been read before andgive a concise precis of the argument. The editor has nicelycoordinated a board of experienced authors who have excellentlyused the knowledge and experience that they have acquired in theirprofessional lives.

Maurizio Salvati