Knowledge about the etiology and diagnosis as well as treatment concepts of neu- oncologic diseases is rapidly growing. This turnover of knowledge makes it dif? cult for the physician engaged in the treatment to keep up to date with current therapies. This book sets out to close the gap and pursues several innovative concepts. As a comprehensive text on neuro-oncology, its chapters are interconnected, but at the same time some chapters or subdivisions are so thoroughly assembled that the whole volume gives the impression of several books combined into one. Neuropathology is treated in an extensive and clearly structured section. The int- ested reader ? nds for each tumor entity the latest well-referenced consensus rega- ing histologic and molecular pathology. Through this "book-in-the-book" concept, information on neuropathology is readily at hand in a concise form and without ov- loading the single chapters. Pediatric neuro-oncology differs in many entities from tumors in adult patients; also, certain tumors of the CNS are typically or mainly found only in the child. Therefore, pediatric neuro-oncology was granted its own, book-like section. Tumor entities that are treated differently in children and adults are included both in the pediatric neuro-oncology section and in the general section. Entities that typically occur only in the child and adolescent are found in the pediatric section in order to avoid redundancies.

Cranial Neuro-Oncology

Pathology and Classification of Tumors of the Nervous System
Targeted Therapies
Tumors of the Skull
Meningiomas and Meningeal Tumors
Low-Grade Astrocytomas
Stereotactic Brachytherapy in Low-Grade Gliomas
High-Grade Astrocytoma/Glioblastoma
Oligodendroglioma
Ependymomas and Ventricular Tumors
Medulloblastoma-PNET, Craniopharyngioma Adult Tumors of Pediatric Origin
Glioneuronal Tumors
Inactive Adenomas
Functioning Adenomas
Tumors of the Pineal Region
Tumors of the Cranial Nerves
Hemangioblastoma and Von Hippel-Lindau Disease
Tumors of the Skull Base
Orbital Tumors
Primary CNS Lymphoma
Brain Metastasis
Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Neurocutaneous Syndromes
Supratentorial Hemispheric Low-Grade Gliomas in Children
Optic Gliomas
Thalamic Gliomas
Midbrain Gliomas
Supratentorial High-Grade Gliomas
Ganglioglioma
Cerebellar Astrocytomas
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas
Dorsally Exophytic Brain Stem Gliomas
Cervicomedullary Gliomas
Desmoplastic Infantile Gangliogliomas
Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma
Hypothalamic Hamartoma
Ependymomas
Medulloblastoma
Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors
Dysembryoplastic Neuroectodermal Tumors
Meningiomas in Children
Pineal Region Tumors in Children
Pituitary Tumors in Children
Craniopharyngiomas
Intracranial Germ Cell Tumors
Choroid Plexus Tumors
Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors of the CNS
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
Tumors of the Skull Base in Children
Tumors of the Cranial Vault in Children
Epidural Spinal Tumors in Children
Spinal Column Tumors
Pediatric Spinal Intradural Extramedullary Tumors
Intramedullary Spinal Tumors in Children
Peripheral Nerve Tumors in Children
Spinal Neuro-Oncology
Intramedullary Tumors
Intradural Extramedullary Tumors
Epidural Tumors and Metastases
Spinal Robotic Radiosurgery
Peripheral Nerve Tumors
Peripheral Nerve Tumors
Systemic and General Aspects of Neuro-Oncology
General Care of Patients with Cancer Involving the Central Nervous System
Palliative Care in Neuro-Oncology.