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Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2019

ISBN

9783110883909

Edition

Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Foreword
Contents
I. Special and comparative pathology of the gliomas – experimental findings
Classification of supratentorial gliomas
Remarks on classification and "grading" (Brief communication)
Problems in the histological grading of human gliomas
Comparative aspects of spontaneous gliomas in animals (Brief communications)
Cell-mediated immune response during progressive glioma growth
Application of immunohistological techniques to the diagnosis of gliomas
Flow cytometry and micronucleus formation in brain tumours
Comparative impulsecytophotometric DNA investigations of glioblastomas, oligodendrogliomas and astrocytomas
Repair of O<sup>6</sup>-alkylguanine in cellular DNA: significance for tumour induction and chemotherapy
Escape phenomenon of glioma cells to allogenic lymphocytes and rhythmically altered protein synthesis encoded by signal transfer
Microscopical investigations on cell death in experimental gliomas in rats
Human glioma xenografts in nude mice: experimental model for pre-clinical chemo-radiotherapy studies
Mononuclear infiltrates in human brain tumours – possible morphological equivalence of an immunological defence reaction
II. General and specialised diagnostic methods for intrinsic brain tumours
Correlation between grade of malignancy of gliomas and their computer tomographic density values
Cerebral gliomas studied with positron emission tomography
Remarks on the follow-up of cerebellar astrocytomas (Brief communication)
Cerebral cysticercosis – a contribution to the differential diagnosis of supratentorial and infratentorial gliomas
Measurement of intracranial pressure. Technique and indications
Intracranial pressure monitoring in postoperative treatment of supratentorial and infratentorial gliomas (Brief communication)
EEG, SEP and VEP examinations during the treatment of malignant gliomas
CEA and TPA in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with intracranial tumours
Sensitivity of human malignant brain tumours to chemotherapeutic agents as detected by the pro-assay: preliminary results of an in vivo/in vitro correlation
III. Principles of operative treatment and radiation therapy
Changes induced in anaplastic gliomas and brain tissue as a result of treatment
Microsurgical management of gliomas
Management of malignant gliomas. A ten year survey at the Neurosurgical Department of Rennes
Re-operating on malignant gliomas: Indications, problems and results
The Ommaya reservoir and its significance for intrathecal cytostatic treatment. Surgical aspects and complications
The significance of age as a factor in the prognosis of surgically treated cerebral gliomas (Brief communication)
Quality of life following microsurgical removal of glioblastomas (Brief communication)
Neuropsychological studies under the therapy of malignant gliomas
Quality of life in patients with malignant brain tumours
Postoperative rapid course irradiation of the glioblastoma
CT-stereotactic interstitial irradiation therapy of non resectable and reentrant intracranial tumour in children and adolescents
Treatment of astrocymatomas grade DI and IV with high-dose irradiation and misonidazole: preliminary report
Reflections on the radiation treatment of gliomas
Therapeutic results in malignant gliomas with special respect to radiotherapy
Pseudo-recurrence in malignant brain tumours
Histological-cytological study of the effects of misonidazole and some related substances on the nervous system
Local, intratumoral chemotherapy of brain gliomas in the rat, using adriamycin – a preliminary report
IV. Chemotherapy: Basic principles, experiences, results and alternative procedures
Principles of cancer treatment with cytostatic agents (Brief communication)
Chemotherapy of malignant gliomas – present state of treatment (Brief communication)
Chemotherapy of malignant supratentorial gliomas in adult: a ten-year experience of the EORTC Brain Tumour Group
Characterization of human malignant brain tumour cells in vitro and comparison of three different in vitro assays to determine their sensitivity to BCNU
Combined modality treatment of operated astrocytomas grade 3–4. A prospective and randomized study of misonidazole and radiotherapy with two different radiation schedules and subsequent CCNU chemotherapy
Chemotherapy of gliomas in adults and of medulloblastoma in children
Combined radiation and polychemotherapy (COMP) in the postoperative treatment of high-grade supratentorial gliomas
Combined chemotherapy of inoperable and operable malignant gliomas
Mono-treatment of malignant glioma with a derivate of nitrosourea, ACNU (first results)
Retrospective study on the effect of CCNU and radiotherapy in 44 patients with malignant glioma
The treatment of brain tumours and brain metastases with a combination of Ifosfamid, BCNU and radiotherapy – preliminary results (Brief communication)
Intra-arterial therapy of malignant gliomas with ACNU and BCNU in combination with phénobarbital protection (preliminary results)
Critical analysis of therapy in long-term surviving patients with glioblastoma multiforme
Preoperative chemo- and/or radiotherapy: its possible role in the treatment of malignant brain gliomas (Brief communication)
The present state of development of multistage treatment of cancer. Fundamental principles of the two-stage regional hyperthermia technique, using the "Selectotherm" procedure, as well as the heat sensitisation of cancer tissue by means of hyperglycaemia (Brief communication)
Hyperthermia-radiotherapy of the gliomas – a critical report
Planning, realization and evaluation of clinical trials: some statistical aspects
V. Summary of the present state of chemotherapy of the supratentorial gliomas
List of contributors
Author's index
Subject index