Management of Childhood Brain Tumors

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Tumors of the Central Nervous System in Children....Pages 5-51
Diagnostic Radiology of Childhood Brain Tumors....Pages 53-119
Neurological Assessment....Pages 121-135
Endocrine and Systemic Manifestation of Brain Tumors in Children....Pages 137-173
Surgery....Pages 175-185
Radiotherapy....Pages 187-231
Pathophysiologic Basis for Brain Tumor Chemotherapy....Pages 233-271
Visual Pathway Gliomas....Pages 273-284
Craniopharyngiomas....Pages 285-307
Pituitary Adenomas in Childhood....Pages 309-323
Cerebral Hemisphere Glioma....Pages 325-342
Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors....Pages 343-355
Meningioma....Pages 357-368
Ependymomas....Pages 369-382
Intracranial Germ-Cell Tumors....Pages 383-399
Midline Intra—Axial Tumors (Nuclear and Brainstem)....Pages 401-409
Medulloblastoma....Pages 411-440
Cerebellar Astrocytomas....Pages 441-456
Brain Metastases....Pages 457-464
Recurrent Central Nervous System Tumors....Pages 465-479
Late Sequelae in Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumors....Pages 481-491
Long-term Neuropsychologic and Intellectual Sequelae in Brain Tumor Patients....Pages 493-500
Second Primary Tumors in Treated Patients....Pages 501-510
Erratum to: Tumors of the Central Nervous System in Children....Pages 511-515
Back Matter....Pages 517-523