Fig. 27.1 Treatment planning of a left sessile HH extending into the interpeduncular cystern near the optic chiasm. This case was treated with frameless image-guided robotic radiosurgery (Cyberknife) delivering 151…
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014M.A. Hayat (ed.)Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 12Tumors of the Central Nervous System1210.1007/978-94-007-7217-5_25 25. Drugs for Primary Brain Tumors: An Update Lauren Nye1, Timothy Huyck1 and Jeffrey Raizer2 (1) Department…
Fig. 23.1 Example of an nTMS mapping, performed on a 63 year-old female patient with a left hemisphere brain tumor, suffering from a mild hemiparesis on her right side. In…
N % Patients 2,630 100 Sex Male 1,275 48.5 Female 1,355 51.5 Age (years) 18–29.9 141 5.4 30–39.9 300 11.4 40–49.9 437 16.6 50–59.9 604 23.0 60–69.9 649 24.7…
Fig. 1.1 White-light microscope images of hematoxylin-eosin stained tissue section of selected brain tumors: (a) – gemistocytic astrocytoma (III grade); (b) – oligodendroglioma (II grade); (c) – glioblastoma multiforme (IV…
N % Patients 2,630 100 Sex Male 1,275 48.5 Female 1,355 51.5 Age (years) 18–29.9 141 5.4 30–39.9 300 11.4 40–49.9 437 16.6 50–59.9 604 23.0 60–69.9 649 24.7…
Fig. 8.1 Treatment planning study for a 3 year old child with a glioma. (a) Shows a VMAT photon plan and (b) a two field proton plan for a treatment…
where n = number of treatments, d = dose per fraction; and α/β = 10 Gy for tumor effects of each schedule. The standard WBRT dose is 30 Gy in 10 fractions given over 2 weeks…
Reference No. of patients with BT No. of GWGH patients No. of obese GWGH Serum insulin at baseline Insulin secretion after loading Serum IGF-I Serum IGFBP-3 Serum leptin Serum prolactin…
Fig. 4.1 AQP-4 immunocytochemical localization in the peripheral areas of glioblastoma nultiforme primary surgical specimens (a), in relapsed surgical specimens from patients treated with radiotherapy (b) and with chemiotherapy and…
