Hayat M.A. (Ed.) Tumours of the Central Nervous System. Volume 05. Astrocytomas, Hemangioblastomas, and Gangliogliomas

Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012. — 295 p. — ISBN: 978-94-007-2018-3.It is recognized that scientific journals and books not only provide current information but also facilitate exchange of information, resulting in rapid progress in the medical field. In this endeavor, the main role of scientific books is to present current information in more detail after careful additional evaluation of the investigational results, especially those of new or relatively new therapeutic methods and their potential toxic side-effects.
Although subjects of diagnosis, drug development, therapy and its assessment, and prognosis of tumors of the central nervous system, cancer recurrence, and resistance to chemotherapy are scattered in a vast number of journals and books, there is need of combining these subjects in single volumes. An attempt will be made to accomplish this goal in the projected ten-volume series of handbooks.
In the era of cost-effectiveness, my opinion may be minority perspective, but it needs to be recognized that the potential for false-positive or false-negative interpretation on the basis of a single laboratory test in clinical pathology does exist. Interobservor or intraobservor variability in the interpretation of results in pathology is not uncommon. Interpretative differences often are related to the relative importance of the criteria being used.Astrocytomas: Diagnosis and Biomarkers
María del Mar Inda, Juan A. Rey, Xing Fan, and Javier S. Castresana Methylation in Malignant Astrocytomas
Alberto Azzalin and Sergio Comincini Deciphering the Function of Doppel Protein in Astrocytomas
Alfredo Conti, Carlo Gulì, Giuseppe J. Sciarrone, and Chiara Tomasello Astrocytic Tumors: Role of Antiapoptotic Proteins
Gangadhara Reddy Sareddy and Phanithi Prakash Babu Deregulation of the Wnt/β-Catenin/Tcf Signaling Pathway in Astrocytomas
Katarzyna Kotulska and Sergiusz Jó´zwiak Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma: Role of mTOR Pathway and Its Inhibitors
Ignacio Camacho-Arroyo, Valeria Hansberg-Pastor, Edith Cabrera-Muñoz, Olivia Tania Hernández-Hernández and Aliesha González-Arenas Role of Progesterone Receptor Isoforms in Human Astrocytomas Growth
Joonas Haapasalo, Hannu Haapasalo, and Seppo Parkkila Astrocytic Tumors: Role of Carbonic Anhydrase IX
Jai-Nien Tung, Tang-Yi Tsao, Kun-Tu Yeh, Ching-Fong Liao, and Ming-Chung Jiang Development of Cysts in Pilocytic Astrocytomas: Role of Eosinophilic Granular Bodies (Method)
Quincy Quick, Yihang Pan, and Omar Skalli Role of Synemin in Astrocytoma Cell Migration
David Capper Diffuse Astrocytomas: Immunohistochemistry of MGMT Expression
Daniel L. Keene and Donna Johnston Central Nervous System Germ Cell Tumors: An Epidemiology Review
Sally R. Lambert and David T.W. Jones RAF Fusion Genes and MAPK Activation in Pilocytic Astrocytomas
Anne F. Buckley, Roger E. McLendon, Carol J. Wikstrand and Darell D. Bigner Biomarker Discovery in Central Nervous System Neoplasms: Past, Present and Future
Kirstie S. Opstad Astrocytomas: Role of Taurine in Apoptosis Using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Masashi Ueda and Hideo Saji Imaging of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1-Active Regions in Tumors Using a POS and 123I-IBB Method
Timo Gaiser and Markus D. Siegelin Diffuse Low-Grade Astrocytomas: P53-Mediated Inhibition of Angiogenesis
Mansoor Foroughi, Shibu Pillai, and Paul Steinbok Spontaneous Regression of Cerebellar Astrocytomas
Magdalena Ewa Tyburczy and Bozena Kaminska Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma: Gene Expression Profiling
Astrocytomas: Therapy
Pramod Butte and Adam N. Mamelak Time-Resolved Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy (TRLIFS): A Tool for Intra-operative Diagnosis of Brain Tumors and Maximizing Extent of Surgical Resection
Kevin Beccaria, Michael S. Canney, and Alexandre C. Carpentier Magnetic Resonance-Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for Brain Tumors
Abraham Boskovitz, Abdullah Kandil and Al Charest Nanotechnology-Based Therapy for Malignant Tumors of the Central Nervous System
Devon Haydon and Jeffrey Leonard Pilocytic Astrocytoma: Pathological and Immunohistochemical Factors Affecting Surgical Treatment and Surveillance
Hitoshi Tsugu, Shinya Oshiro, Fuminari Komatsu, Hiroshi Abe, Takeo Fukushima, Tooru Inoue, Fumio Yanai, and Yuko Nomura Pilomyxoid Astrocytomas: Chemotherapy
Astrocytomas: Prognosis
Sotirios Bisdas Astrocytomas: Predicting Survival and Recurrence Using Cerebral Blood Volume Measurements
Lisa M. Wintner, Johannes M. Giesinger, Gabriele Schauer-Maurer and Bernhard Holzner Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Monitoring (ePROM) in Brain Tumour Patients
Hemangioblastoma
Loyola V. Gressot and Steven W. Hwang Intra-operative ICG Use in the Management of Hemangioblastomas
Satoshi Utsuki, Hidehiro Oka, and Kiyotaka Fujii Hemangioblastoma Cysts: Diagnosis Using Fluorescence with 5-Aminolevulinic Acid
Anand Veeravagu, Bowen Jiang, and Steven D. Chang Hemangioblastoma: Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Ganglioglioma
Eleonora Aronica and Pitt Niehusmann Gangliogliomas: Molecular Pathogenesis and Epileptogenesis
Albert J. Becker Epilepsy-Associated Gangliogliomas: Identification of Genes with Altered Expression