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Low-Grade Glioma, An Issue of Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. The Clinics: Surgery Volume 30-1

  • Book

  • December 2018
  • Region: North America
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 4768426

This issue of Neurosurgery Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Guy McKhann and Hugues Duffau, with consulting editors Russell R. Lonser and Daniel K. Resnick, will focus on Low-Grade Glioma. Topics includes, but are not limited to, Epidemiology and Molecular Epidemiology; WHO Pathological and Molecular Classification; Molecular Pathogenesis; Glioma Cell Migration and Heterogeneity; Clinical Presentation, Natural History, and Prognosis; LGG Epilepsy; MRI, fMRI, DTI, Molecular Imaging; Brain Mapping Techniques in LGG; Surgical Adjuncts to Increase EOR iMRI, Flourescence, Raman Histology; Mapping Cognition and Emotion; Extent of Resection; EOR vs Molecular Classification; Chemotherapy Treatment and Trials; Radiotherapy Treatment and Trials; Higher Order Surgical Questions; and Building a Glioma Practice.

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Table of Contents

1. Epidemiology and Molecular Epidemiology 
2. Molecular Pathogenesis
3. Alterations in the Brain Microenvironment in Diffusely Infiltrating Low Grade Glioma
4. Clinical Presentation, Natural History and Prognosis of Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas
5. LGG Epilepsy
6. Mapping in Low Grade Glioma Surgery: Low and High Frequency Stimulation
7. Surgical Adjuncts to Increase EOR iMRI, Fluorescence, Raman Histology
8. Beyond Language: Mapping Cognition and Emotion
9. Evidence for Improving Outcome through Extent of Resection 
10. EOR Versus Molecular Classification: What Matters When?
11. Chemotherapy Treatment and Trials in Low Grade Gliomas
12. Low-Grade Glioma Radiotherapy Treatment and Trials
13. Higher Order Surgical Questions for Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas: Supramaximal Resection, Neuroplasticity and Screening
14. Building a Glioma Practice

Authors

Guy M. McKhann II Columbia Neurosurgery. Hugues Duffau National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), U1051, Team "Plasticity of the Central Nervous System, Human Stem Cells and Glial Tumors", Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier; Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, Montpellier University Medical Center, Montpellier, France.