Convection-Enhanced Delivery
10.1055/b-0034-79100 Convection-Enhanced DeliveryGautam U. Mehta and Russell R. Lonser As many as 15 to 20% of pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors are located in the brainstem.1 These tumors, particularly…
Radiation Therapy for Pediatric CNS Malignancies
10.1055/b-0034-79098 Radiation Therapy for Pediatric CNS MalignanciesShannon M. MacDonald and Nancy J. Tarbell Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) malignancies represent the most common solid malignancy of childhood and account for…
Stereotactic Radiosurgery
10.1055/b-0034-79099 Stereotactic RadiosurgeryAmanda L. Yaun Decades of experience have proven stereotactic radiosurgery to be an effective means of local tumor control in carefully selected patients. Studies specific to the pediatric…
Gene Therapy for Pediatric Brain Tumors
10.1055/b-0034-79102 Gene Therapy for Pediatric Brain TumorsKaveh Asadi-Moghaddam, E. Antonio Chiocca, David W. Pincus, and Corey Raffel In recent years, important progress has been made in understanding the molecular bases…
Inheritable Genetic Variations Predisposing to CNS Tumors
10.1055/b-0034-79094 Inheritable Genetic Variations Predisposing to CNS TumorsJonathan L. Finlay and Uri Tabori Cancer is a genetic disease. However, not all cancers are inherited, and although some genetic variations predisposing…
Critical Care
10.1055/b-0034-79097 Critical CareNathan Dean The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a multidisciplinary region of the hospital designed to care for patients with impending and current single or multiorgan failure….
Chemotherapy
10.1055/b-0034-79101 ChemotherapyEugene I. Hwang, Lindsay B. Kilburn, and Brian R. Rood The addition of chemotherapy to regimens that previously utilized only surgery and/or radiation has significantly improved the survival for…
Surgical Strategies and the Pursuit of Minimalism
10.1055/b-0034-79096 Surgical Strategies and the Pursuit of MinimalismRobert F. Keating The past few decades have seen successive quantum leaps forward in the surgical arena known as neurosurgery. Although the basic…
Cytogenetic/Molecular Biology: Recent Advances in the Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology of Pediatric Brain Tumors
10.1055/b-0034-79093 Cytogenetic/Molecular Biology: Recent Advances in the Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology of Pediatric Brain TumorsJong Hee Chang, Yuzo Terakawa, Christian A. Smith, and James T. Rutka Brain tumors are the…
Neuropathology
10.1055/b-0034-79092 NeuropathologyMariarita Santi and Elisabeth J. Rushing Since 1979, tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) have been classified according to guidelines promulgated by the World Health Organization (WHO), which…
