Tumors and Cancers: Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems – Pocket Guides To Biomedical Sciences

Description

Tumors and cancers are insidious diseases characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their usual boundaries and disrupt the normal functions of affected organs. Forming the first of the four volumes devoted to tumors and cancers, this volume focuses on the central and peripheral nervous systems. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular type in relation to its definition, biology, epidemiology, disease mechanism/pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Table of Contents

1.  Introductory remarks
2. TUMORS OF NEUROEPITHELIAL TISSUE
   1. Astrocytoma
   2. Glioblastoma Divya Khosla and Ritesh Kumar
   3. Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma Xintong Zhao and Guoquan Jiang
   4. Chordoid glioma, angiocentric glioma, and diffuse midline glioma
   5. Astroblastoma Mohammed Hmoud and Alaa Samkari
   6. Gliomatosis cerebri Vamsi Krishna Yerramneni and Omekareswar Rambarki
   7. Oligodendroglioma
   8. Oligoastrocytoma
   9. Ependymoma
   10. Choroid plexus tumors
   11. Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor
   12. Gangliocytoma and Lhermitte-Duclos disease
   13. Ganglioglioma Mandana Behbahani, Hasan R. Syed, Christopher Kalhorn, and Tadanori Tomita
   14. Neurocytoma.
   15. Papillary glioneuronal tumor Andreas K. Demetriades
   16. Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor Tayfun Hakan
   17. Pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiation Prantik Das
   18. Pineoblastoma, pineocytoma and papillary tumor of the pineal region
   19. Medulloblastoma
   20. CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumor and other embryonal tumors
3. TUMORS OF THE CRANIAL AND PARASPINAL NERVES
   1. Neurofibroma Soubhagya Ranjan Tripathy, Samer Hoz Saad Alameri, and Mohamed Said Elsanafiry
   2. Perineurioma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
   3. Schwannoma Austin Huy Nguyen, Adam M Vaudreuil, Victoria M Lim and Stephen W Coons
4. TUMORS OF THE MENINGES
   1. Melanocytic tumors
   2. Hemangiopericytoma and hemangioblastoma
5. TUMORS OF THE SELLAR REGION
   1. Craniopharyngioma

Author Biography

Dongyou Liu, Ph.D., studied veterinary science at Hunan Agricultural University, China and undertook postgraduate training at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Over the past two decades, he has worked at several research and clinical laboratories in Australia and the United States of America, with focuses on molecular characterization and virulence determination of microbial pathogens such as ovine footrot bacterium (Dichelobacter nodosus), dermatophyte fungi (Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton ) and listeriae (Listeria species), as well as development of nucleic acid-based quality assurance models for security sensitive and emerging viral pathogens. Additionally, during the period of 1995-2001, he established and performed molecular tests at clinical laboratories for a range of human genetic disorders and cancers, including BRCA1, BRCA2, c-kit, B-/Tcell receptor gene rearrangements, t (11,14) chromosomal translocation, k-ras, fragile X syndrome, factor V Leiden, hemochromatosis and prothrombin mutations. He is the primary author of >50 original research and review articles in various international journals, the contributor of 176 book chapters, and the editor of “Handbook of Listeria monocytogenes” (2008), “Handbook of Nucleic Acid Purification” (2009), “Molecular Detection of Foodborne Pathogens” (2009), “Molecular Detection of Human Viral Pathogens” (2010), “Molecular Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens” (2011), “Molecular Detection of Human Fungal Pathogens” (2011), “Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens” (2012), “Manual of Security Sensitive Microbes and Toxins” (2014), “Molecular Detection of Animal Viral Pathogens” (2016), and “Laboratory Models for Foodborne Infections” (2017), all of which were released by CRC Press. He is also a co-editor for “Molecular Medical Microbiology 2nd Edition”, which was published by Elsevier in 2014.