Brachytherapy for Malignant Spinal Tumors
11Brachytherapy for Malignant Spinal Tumors NICHOLAS THEODORE, CURTIS A. DICKMAN, VOLKER K. H. SONNTAG, AND LELAND C. ROGERS In the United States, the annual prevalence of newly diagnosed bone metastasis…
Cellular and Molecular Biology of Central Nervous System Spinal and Peripheral Nerve Neoplasms
4Cellular and Molecular Biology of Central Nervous System Spinal and Peripheral Nerve Neoplasms JOAN SHAPIRO Most malignant tumors are thought to arise from a series of genetic alterations that result…
Ophthalmologic Evaluation and Management
5 Ophthalmologic Evaluation and Management Steven A. Newman Core Messages Visual signs and symptoms are extremely frequent manifestations of disease affecting the sellar and parasellar region. Medical treatment, radiation therapy, radiosurgery,…
Anatomy of the Sellar and Parasellar Region
2 Anatomy of the Sellar and Parasellar Region Albert L. Rhoton Jr. This chapter focuses on the anatomic basis of the microsurgical and endoscopic approaches to the sellar and parasellar regions….
Transcranial Approaches to the Sellar and Parasellar Area
12 Transcranial Approaches to the Sellar and Parasellar Area Bradley N. Bohnstedt, Todd Eads, R. Shane Tubbs, and Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol The differential diagnosis of a mass within the parasellar space…
Surgical Treatment of Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas
9 Surgical Treatment of Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas Devyani Lal, Nancy J. Fischbein, and Griffith R. Harsh IV Chordomas and chondrosarcomas are osteocartilaginous tumors that typically involve the skull base in a…
Intracavitary Radiation for Cystic Craniopharyngiomas
15 Intracavitary Radiation for Cystic Craniopharyngiomas L. Dade Lunsford, Ajay Niranjan, Hideyuki Kano, Peter Kang, and Douglas Kondziolka Despite the major advances of skull base microsurgical techniques, as well as expanded…
Radiologic Evaluation and Diagnosis for Pathology in the Sellar and Parasellar Region
3 Radiologic Evaluation and Diagnosis for Pathology in the Sellar and Parasellar Region Prashant Raghavan and Max Wintermark The complex anatomy of the sella turcica and parasellar skull base lends itself…
Surgical Treatment of Rathke Cleft Cysts
10 Surgical Treatment of Rathke Cleft Cysts Erin N. Kiehna, Spencer C. Payne, and John A. Jane Jr. Luschka provided the earliest description of a Rathke cleft cyst (RCC) in 1860.1…
Radiation Therapy
13 Radiation Therapy Itai Pashtan, Kevin S. Oh, and Jay S. Loeffler Radiation therapy has an important role in the local control of sellar and parasellar tumors that are not completely…
