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Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors, 1st Edition

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Edited by Kaisorn Chaichana, MD and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, FAANS, FACS
Unique in the field, Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors presents commonly encountered skull base and intrinsic neoplasm cases with side-by-side, case-by-case comparisons that clearly show how various experts would handle the same case. This inaugural vo ...view more
Unique in the field, Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors presents commonly encountered skull base and intrinsic neoplasm cases with side-by-side, case-by-case comparisons that clearly show how various experts would handle the same case. This inaugural volume in the Neurosurgery: Case Comparison Series offers multiple opinions from international experts in neurosurgery who provide various approaches and management styles for the same case. This format allows for quick and helpful comparisons of different ways to approach a lesion, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and what each expert is looking for in how they would manage a particular case.
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9780323696425
Publication Date :
08-12-2020
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Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery
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Unique in the field, Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors presents commonly encountered skull base and intrinsic neoplasm cases with side-by-side, case-by-case comparisons that clearly show how various experts would handle the same case. This inaugural volume in the Neurosurgery: Case Comparison Series offers multiple opinions from international experts in neurosurgery who provide various approaches and management styles for the same case. This format allows for quick and helpful comparisons of different ways to approach a lesion, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and what each expert is looking for in how they would manage a particular case.

Key Features
  • Offers 3 to 4 expert opinions on each case in a templated format designed to help you quickly make side-by-side comparisons—an ideal learning tool for both trainees and practicing neurosurgeons for board review and case preparation.
  • Helps you easily grasp different approaches to brain tumor management with different expert approaches to the same case and summaries from the editors on the advantages and disadvantages to each approach.
  • Features a wide variety of management decisions, from preoperative studies to surgical approach, surgical adjuncts, and postoperative care, from experts in the field who specialize in different aspects of neurosurgery.
  • Covers low and high grade gliomas, metastatic brain cancers, meningiomas, sellar and parasellar lesions, skull base lesions, and other brain lesions such as colloid cyst, cavernoma, hemangioblastoma, brain abscess, and more.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Edited by Kaisorn Chaichana, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology, and Otolaryngology, Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, FAANS, FACS, Professor, Chair of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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ISBN Number 9780323696425
Description Author List Edited by Kaisorn Chaichana, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology, and Otolaryngology, Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, FAANS, FACS, Professor, Chair of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Copyright Year 2022
Edition Number 1
Format Book
Trim 216w x 276h (8.50" x 10.875")
Imprint Elsevier
Page Count 453
Publication Date 8 Dec 2020
Stock Status Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery

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I. Introduction
II. Supratentorial intrinsic neoplasm
a. Low grade gliomas
i. Right frontal pole low grade glioma
ii. Right peri-Rolandic low grade glioma
iii. Left peri-Rolandic high grade glioma
iv. Left Broca’s area low grade glioma
v. Left Wernicke’s area low grade glioma
vi. Right insular low grade glioma
vii. Left insular low grade glioma
viii. Occipital lobe low grade glioma
ix. Gliomatosis cererbi
b. High grade gliomas
i. Right frontal pole high grade glioma
ii. Right peri-Rolandic high grade glioma
iii. Left peri-Rolandic high grade glioma
iv. Left Broca’s area high grade glioma
v. Left Wernicke’s area high grade glioma
vi. Right insular high grade glioma
vii. Left insular high grade glioma
viii. Occipital lobe high grade glioma
ix. Left thalamic high grade glioma
x. Left basal ganglia high grade glioma
xi. Recurrent high grade glioma
c. Metastatic tumors
i. Peri-Rolandic metastasis
ii. 2 metastases
iii. 3 metastases
iv. Basal ganglia metastasis
v. Multiple metastases but one is symptomatic
vi. Intraventricular metastasis
vii. Sellar metastasis
d. Other lesions
i. Peri-Rolandic abscess
ii. Temporal arachnoid cyst
iii. Sphenoid encephalocele
III. Infratentorial intrinsic neoplasm
i. Cerebellar metastasis
ii. Cerebellar hemangioblastoma
iii. Middle cerebellar peduncle cavernoma
iv. Vermian metastasis
v. Medullary non exophytic glioma
vi. Medullary exophytic glioma
IV. Intraventricular lesions
i. Colloid cyst
ii. Intraventricular meningioma
iii. Central neurocytoma
iv. Craniopharyngioma with extension into the 3rd ventricule
v. 4th ventricular ependymoma
vi. Choroid plexus papilloma
vii. Medulloblastoma
V. Anterior fossa skull base lesions
i. Olfactory groove meningioma
ii. Esthesioneuroblastoma
iii. Parasagittal meningioma
iv. Parafalcine meningioma
v. Pituitary adenoma
vi. Skull base meta

"This book is one of a kind and the first to include side-by-side comparisons of international neurosurgical management strategies."

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