Main description:

Despite recent technological innovations in neuroradiology, the ultimate diagnosis of brain tumors is still based on the histopathological findings from specimens taken during surgery. The material in this atlas represents approximately 700 brain tumor specimens collected mainly in the authors' own clinics. In most cases, complementary light-and-electron-microscopic images of the same case are presented. This volume is a clear and comprehensive guide to the pathology of tumors arising from the central nervous system and should prove useful to pathology residents, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and senior medical students.

Contents:

1. Fibrillary Astrocytoma.- 2. Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma.- 3. Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma.- 4. Anaplastic Astrocytoma.- 5. Oligodendroglioma.- 6. Ependymoma.- 7. Choroid Plexus Papilloma.- 8. Glioblastoma.- 9. Medulloblastoma.- 10. Ganglioglioma.- 11. Central Neurocytoma.- 12. Cerebral Neuroblastoma.- 13. Olfactory Neuroblastoma (Esthesioneuroblastoma).- 14. Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET).- 15. Pineocytoma.- 16. Germinoma.- 17. Teratoma and Teratoid Tumor.- 18. Schwannoma.- 19. Pituitary Adenoma and Oncocytoma.- 20. Meningioma.- 21. Meningioangiomatosis.- 22. Hemangioblastoma.- 23. Hemangiopericytoma.- 24. Melanoma.- 25. Malignant Lymphoma.- 26. Craniopharyngioma.- 27. Chordoma.- 28. Metastatic Tumor.- References.