Intracranial Metastases: Current Management Strategies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405116463 ISBN 13: 9781405116466

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

Synopsis

• 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.

About this title

About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

Edited by Raymod Sawaya with contributions from leaders in the fields of neurosurgery and neuro-oncology, Intracranial Metastases: Current Management Strategies 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 historical types of cancer metastasizing to the brain is presented separately in a detailed analysis and discussion.

• Includes a considerations 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.

• Includes a considerations 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405116463
• ISBN 13: 9781405116466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Sawaya Raymond