Cancer neurology in clinical practice
By: edited by David Schiff and Patrick Y. Wen ; foreword by Jerome B. Posner.
Contributors: Schiff, David, 1959-; Wen, Patrick Y.
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Neurologic manifestations of general diseases; Cancer -- Complications; Cancer -- Treatment -- Complications; Metastasis; Neoplasms -- complications.; Neoplasms -- therapy.; Neurologic Manifestations.; Therapeutics -- adverse effects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Overview; title: 1 The Prevalence and Impact of Neurologic Disease in Cancer; title: Charles J. Vecht, MD, PhD; title: Part II. Neurologic Symptoms; title: 2 The Epidemiology and Management of Seizures in Patients with Cancer; title: Michael J. Glantz, MD and Keith R. Edwards, MD; title: 3 Corticosteroids in Neuro-Oncology,; title: Nina A. Paleologos, MD and Nicholas A. Vick, MD; title: 4 Headache Associated with Intracranial Neoplasms; title: Siraj M. Husain, MD, FRCPC and Peter A. Forsyth, MD; title: 5 Confusion and Delirium; title: Augusto Caraceni, MD, Marco Bosisio, PhD,; title: and Jane M. Ingham, MB, BS, FRACP; title: 6 Cancer Pain; title: Julie E. Hammack, MD; title: Part III. Direct Complications of Cancer; title: 7 Brain Metastases; title: Raja B. Khan, MD and Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD; title: 8 Skull and Dural Metastases; title: Ben P. W. Jansen, MD and Peter A. E. Sillevis Smitt, MD, PhD; title: 9 Spinal Metastases; title: David Schiff, MD; title: 10 Leptomeningeal Metastases; title: Warren P. Mason, MD, FRCPC; title: 11 Neuromuscular Disease and Its Complications; title: Magdy Selim, MD, PhD, David A. Chad, MD, and Lawrence D. Recht, MD; title: Part IV. Indirect Complications of Cancer; title: 12 Cerebrovascular Complications of Cancer; title: Megan C. Leary, MD and Jeffrey L. Saver, MD; title: 13 Paraneoplastic Syndromes of the Nervous System; title: Myrna R. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD and Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD; title: Part V. Complications of Cancer Therapy; title: 14 Neurologic Sequelae of Radiotherapy on the Nervous System; title: Anthony Behin, MD and Jean-Yves Delattre, MD; title: 15 Cancer and Cancer Treatment-Related Neuromuscular Disease; title: Casilda Balmaceda, MD and Elina Korkin, BS; title: 16 Central Nervous System Complications of Cancer Therapy; title: Patrick Y. Wen, MD; title: 17 Neurologic Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; title: Hendrikus G. J. Krouwer, MD, PhD and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD; title: 18 Central Nervous System Infections in Cancer Patients; title: Neil E. Anderson, MB, CHB, FRACP and Mark G. Thomas, MD, FRACP, FRCPA; title: Part VI. Diagnostic Studies; title: 19 Imaging Neurologic Manifestations of Oncologic Disease; title: Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD and Melanie B. Fukui, MD; title: Part VII. Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Specific Malignancies; title: 20 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Lung Cancer; title: Suriya A. Jeyapalan, MD, MA and John W. Henson, MD; title: 21 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Breast Cancer; title: Willem Boogerd, MD, PhD; title: 22 Neurologic Complications of Genitourinary Malignancies; title: David Schiff, MD, Donald L. Trump, MD, and Patrick Y. Wen, MD; title: 23 Melanoma; title: Denise M. Damek, MD; title: 24 Leukemia; title: Hanny Haaxma-Reiche, MD, PhD; title: 25 Neurologic Complications of Hodgkin's Disease and the Non-Hodgkin's; title: Lymphomas; title: Brian Patrick O'Neill, MD; title: 26 Neurologic Disorders in Benign and Malignant Plasma Cell Dyscrasias; title: John J. Kelly, MD; title: 27 Female Reproductive Tract Cancers; title: Lauren E. Abrey, MD; title: 28 Neurologic Complications of Gastrointestinal Malignancies; title: Deborah T. Blumenthal, MD and Richard H. Wheeler, MD; title: 29 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Sarcomas; title: Lara J. Kunschner, MD; title: 30 Neurologic Complications of Head and Neck Cancer; title: David Schiff, MD, Dong M. Shin, MD, Paul L. Moots, MD,; title: and Ronald G. Wiley, MD; title: 31 Neurologic Complications in Children with Systemic Cancer; title: Nuno Lobo Antunes, MD.