I. Overview --;1 The Prevalence and Impact of Neurologic Disease in Cancer --;II. Neurologic Symptoms --;2 The Epidemiology and Management of Seizures in Patients with Cancer --;3 Corticosteroids in Neuro-Oncology --;4 Headache Associated with Intracranial Neoplasms --;5 Confusion and Delirium --;6 Cancer Pain --;III. Direct Complications of Cancer --;7 Brain Metastases --;8 Skull and Dural Metastases --;9 Spinal Metastases --;10 Leptomeningeal Metastases --;11 Neuromuscular Disease and Its Complications --;IV. Indirect Complications of Cancer --;12 Cerebrovascular Complications of Cancer --;13 Paraneoplastic Syndromes of the Nervous System --;V. Complications of Cancer Therapy --;14 Neurologic Sequelae of Radiotherapy on the Nervous System --;15 Cancer and Cancer Treatment-Related Neuromuscular Disease --;16 Central Nervous System Complications of Cancer Therapy --;17 Neurologic Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation --;18 Central Nervous System Infections in Cancer Patients --;VI. Diagnostic Studies --;19 Imaging Neurologic Manifestations of Oncologic Disease --;VII. Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Specific Malignancies --;20 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Lung Cancer --;21 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Breast Cancer --;22 Neurologic Complications of Genitourinary Malignancies --;23 Melanoma --;24 Leukemia --;25 Neurologic Complications of Hodgkin's Disease and the Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas --;26 Neurologic Disorders in Benign and Malignant Plasma Cell Dyscrasias --;27 Female Reproductive Tract Cancers --;28 Neurologic Complications of Gastrointestinal Malignancies --;29 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Sarcomas --;30 Neurologic Complications of Head and Neck Cancer --;31 Neurologic Complications in Children with Systemic Cancer.
Reviews the neurologic symptoms that cancer patients experience, and shows how they should be interpreted and evaluated. Organized by both symptom and organ, this book describes each diagnostic neurologic entity and presents each major type of cancer in terms of it neurologic problems and how they should be handled.
Cancer -- Complications.
Cancer -- Treatment -- Complications.
Neurologic manifestations of general diseases.
RC347
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E358
2003
edited by David Schiff and Patrick Y. Wen ; foreword by Jerome B. Posner.