Overview
- Discusses brain and spinal cord tumors with an interdisciplinary approach
- Focuses on clinical aspects of brain and spinal cord tumors
- Useful for physicians, including neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuropathologists, and neuroradiologists
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1405)
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This book aims to gather the current knowledge regarding different aspects of brain and spinal cord tumors in order to more efficiently help the patients. Brain tumors comprise about 5–9% of all human neoplasms; and the central nervous system (CNS) neoplasms are ranked among the most prevalent neoplasms of childhood as well. The more we know about the nature and characteristic of brain and spinal cord tumors, the more precise decision could be made for each patient, in order to reach the best outcome. While surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy have been considered as the standards of care for benign and/or malignant CNS tumors since a long time ago, new therapeutic approaches such as immunotherapy have been recently proposed to be considered for treatment of CNS tumors, especially as in some cases, the tumors might be inoperable or the patient may not benefit from other treatment modalities after several recurrences.
The second volume of the book focuses on clinical aspects of these tumors. Accordingly, the most important brain and spinal cord tumors are specifically discussed in each chapter based on a rational outlining for all chapter in this volume: Background and epidemiology, genetics, immunology and molecular biology, histopathology and morphology, imaging and radiologic features, clinical manifestations, therapeutic approaches, surgical intervention, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, new therapeutic modalities, follow-up, and prognosis. The chapters of this volume discuss the following pathologies of brain and spinal cord tumors: malignant glioma, benign glioma, meningiomas and other meningeal tumors, ependymomas, medulloblastomas, pineal tumors, choroid plexus and ventricular tumors, neuroectodermal tumors of CNS, neuroepithelial tumors of CNS, pituitary gland tumors, craniopharyngioma, schwannomas and nerve-sheet tumors, hemangioblastomas and other vascular originating tumors, brain and spinal tumors of embryonic origin, germ line cell tumors, malignant bone or cartilage-originating tumors of brain and spine, benign bone or cartilage-originating tumors of brain and spine, brain tumors affecting the orbit globe and orbit tumors affecting the brain, CNS lymphomas, metastatic lesions of the brain and spine, malignant spinal tumors, benign spinal tumors, brain and/or spinal cord tumors accompanied with other diseases or syndromes, psychological and psychiatric aspects of brain and spinal cord tumors, a brief explanation on surgical approaches for treatment of different brain tumors. This volume of book is useful for physicians of different specialties, mainly neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuropathologists, and neuroradiologists.Keywords
Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Sara Hanaei started medicine at TUMS in 2010 and started a master of public health (MPH) in 2014. She graduated with MD-MPH in 2018. She also received TUMS Research Diploma (TUMS-RD) in a 2-year study period from 2013-2015. She was a research assistant at Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID) from 2018-2021 and further continued neurosurgery as a clinical specialty at TUMS in 2021. She has experience in teaching research skills to students.
Medical research was one of her greatest interests since the beginning of her academic education, especially in the fields of Neurosurgery and Immunology, therefore, she started research in those fields. Over the past decade, she contributed to different research projects, books, and other research activities including instructing research workshops in statistics, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis. She got involved in executive tasks and developed some executive skills through membership in the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), where she experienced organizing scientific events, congresses, festivals, scoring, rankings, etc.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors: From Bench to Bedside. Volume 2
Book Subtitle: The Path to Bedside Management
Editors: Nima Rezaei, Sara Hanaei
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23705-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23704-1Published: 16 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23707-2Due: 16 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23705-8Published: 15 July 2023
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 739
Number of Illustrations: 128 b/w illustrations, 159 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cancer Research, Molecular Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Immunology