MRI Atlas of Central Nervous System Tumors

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to magnetic resonance imaging

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 11-32

3. MRI brain anatomy

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 33-83

4. Classification of CNS tumors

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 85-94

5. Neuroepithelial tumors

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 95-134

6. Tumors of the pineal region

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 135-143

7. Meningiomas

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 145-164

8. Intracranial neurinomas

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 165-173

9. Pituitary adenomas and craniopharyngiomas

   • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

   Pages 175-192

10. Angiomas and tumor-like aneurysms

    • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

    Pages 193-209

11. Intracranial metastatic tumors

    • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

    Pages 211-227

12. Rare tumors and nontumoral space-occupying lesions

    • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

    Pages 229-254

13. Spinal Tumors

    • Lucia Cecconi, Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli, Ettore Squillaci

    Pages 255-291

From the review of the Italian edition in "Neurosurgery": "...The first chapter by a physicist from the Università dell'Aquila presents the scientific basis of the complex phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance and MR imaging in a clear and reasonably simple fashion. The next two chapters of the remaining eleven are excellent background and informational chapters; one is on MR anatomy of the brain compared with numerous appropriate anatomic sections and includes labeled reference drawings, and the other is on the classification of tumors of the central nervous system and includes a table of the MR differential characteristics of the major intracranial neoplasms. Each of the remaining chapters deals with one of the following: neuroepithelial tumors, pineal region tumors, meningiomas, neurinomas, pituitary adenomas and craniopharyngiomas, angiomas and aneurysms producing mass effect, intracranial metastatic tumors, rare tumors and expansive nontumoral lesions, and, lastly, spinal tumors. There is a brief clinical discussion on each of these topics, and each chapter is illustrated with numerous excellent reproductions of good quality MR images of these lesions. The selection, presentation, variety, and quality of the cases and the outstanding illustrations make for a superb atlas..." #H.V. Rizzoli, Washington, DC#1 This atlas is the result of the cooperative work of radiologists and neurosurgeons of the National Cancer Institute in Rome. The English edition has been enriched with many new images. This has been necessary because of the actual wide use of Gadolinium as a contrast agent and the use of more sophisticated software for MR angiography.

• Nervous System
• Tumor
• classification
• neurosurgery
• surgery

• Service of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, USA

  Lucia Cecconi

• Division of Neurosurgery, Istituto Regina Elena, Rome, Italy

  Alfredo Pompili, Fabrizio Caroli

• Institute of Radiology, Medical School, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy

  Ettore Squillaci

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