Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 6, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2012 Spinal Tumors (Part 1) Tumors of the Central Nervous System Series, Vol. 6

1 General introduction.-2 Pediatric mixed glioneuronal tumors in the spinal cord.-3 Intradural spinal tumors: classification, symptoms, and radiological features.-4 Non-dysraphic intradural spinal cord lipoma: management guidelines.-5 Malignant astrocytomas of the spinal cord: clinicopathologic parameters.-6 Spinal epidural angiolipoma. I Diagnosis.-7 Spinal cord tumor oligodendroglioma: diagnosis.-8 Primary spinal oligodendroglioma: diagnosis, outcome, and prognosis.-9 Pilomyxoid astrocytoma of the spinal cord with cerebrospinal     fluid and peritoneal metastasis.-10 Intraspinal oncocytic adrenocortical adenoma: diagnosis.-11 Chordomas of the clivus and upper cervical spine. Imaging.-12 Spinal teratoid/ rhabdoid tumor: use of diffusion - weighted imaging for diagnosis.-13 Gangliogliomas of the spinal cord: neuroimaging correlations with pathology, controversies in pathological diagnosis, and prognosis. Therapy.-14 Surgery for spinal tumours.-15 Resection of spinal meningioma: postoperative focal hyperemia.-16 Spinal cord hemangioblastomas: surgical management.-17 Spinal radiosurgery:  delayed radiation-induced myelopathy.-18 Metastatic spine disease: indications, timing, and outcomes for surgery and radiation therapy.-19 Sequence of surgery, radiotherapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of metastatic spine disease: effects on wound healing.-20 Treatment of spinal tumors with cyberknife stereotactic radiotherapy.-21 Recurrent spinal cord cystic astrocytomas: treatment with rhenium-186 intracavitary radiation.-22 Embolization of spinal tumors.-23 Embolization of spinal cord tumours.-24 Locomotor recovery after spinal cord transaction: transplantation of oligodendrocytes and motoneuron progenitors generated from human embryonic stem cells.-25 Malignant primary spinal neoplasms: total en bloc spondylectomy. Index.