Title	Cancer Neurology in Clinical Practice [electronic resource] / edited by David Schiff, Patrick Y. Wen
Imprint	Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2003
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-317-0
Descript	XVI, 464 p. online resource

Neurologic complications of systemic cancer and its treatment often present complex diagnostic and management problems, commonly have a great impact on quality of life, and are a major factor in the death of cancer patients. In Cancer Neurology in Clinical Practice, leading neuro-oncologists from around the world comprehensively review the neurologic symptoms that cancer patients experience, and show how these symptoms should be interpreted and evaluated. Organized by both symptom and type of cancer, the book carefully describes each diagnostic neurologic entity-from symptomatology, to diagnostic studies, to management and prognosis-and presents each major type of cancer in terms of its neurologic problems and how they should be handled. This dual organization allows physicians quickly to obtain neurologic guidance on either a diagnostic problem (e.g., confusion and delirium) or on the neurologic problems and treatments associated with a specific type of cancer (e.g., lung cancer). The role of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and other palliative measures are considered for each type of problem. Multidisciplinary and up-to-date, Cancer Neurology in Clinical Practice explains to the busy physician treating cancer patients all the latest findings in neuro-oncology that will help sharpen their differential diagnoses, diagnostic strategies, and treatment plans for those patients with neurologic symptoms and findings

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 Hodgkinโ{128}{153}s Disease and the Non-Hodgkinโ{128}{153}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