Fig. 36.1 Focal brainstem glioma, sagittal T1 image Over the same period improvements in neurosurgical techniques and perioperative care have made surgery feasible for all except diffuse intrinsic tumors [1]….
Fig. 19.1 Prone (a) and supine (b) positioning for craniospinal irradiation with personalized thermoplastic mask and vacuum bag immobilizer 19.2.5 Target Volumes, Organs at Risk, and Techniques The following organs…
Fig. 47.1 CT scan of a clival chordoma (a) Axial slice showing a hypodense mass of the posterior aspect of the clivus (dotted line) contacting the brainstem (arrows) (b) Axial…
Fig. 41.1 Typical rhabdoid cells with granular chromatin, prominent nucleolus and eosinophilic cytoplasm, brisk mitoses, and apoptotic bodies (HE, ×100) Reticulin may be abundant in some AT/RTs, especially in the…
Fig. 4.1 Tentorial and suboccipital surface view of cerebellum The cerebellum has fissures that divide the organ into series of layers or leaves. The largest and deepest fissure is the…
Fig. 7.1 A case of posterior fossa ependymoma where the initial tumor volume (red) and postoperative gross tumor (light blue shaded) have been delineated on axial MR imaging and presented…
Fig. 2.1 Dorsal view of a chick embryo (8 somite stage) showing the neural tube (NT) that occupies the medial region and the paraxial mesoderm with the cephalic mesoderm (CM)…
Fig. 54.1 Cutaneous lesions of Cowden syndrome Nowadays, there is tendency to include LDD and Cowden syndrome in PTEN hamartomatous tumor syndromes (PHTS): a collection of syndromes characterized by germline…
Fig. 51.1 Axial and sagittal post-gadolinium T1-weighted images show a typical aspect of ganglioglioma in the left cerebellar hemisphere with a mass effect. The enhanced-T1 image demonstrates patchy enhancement Fig….
Fig. 10.1 Schematic presentation of (right) the extradural (ED) subtemporal and retrosigmoid approaches with the internal carotid artery (star) and internal auditory canal and cochlea (circle) and of (left) the…
