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Intraparenchymal Intrinsic Brain Tumours

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This chapter deals with tumours whose origin is from intracerebral cells. They include a whole family of tumours of which the commonest are the gliomas. However, the list includes ependymomas, haemangioblastomas and others. The chapter sections will be grouped according to the cell of origin of the tumours being considered. Clinical presentations will not be presented since they are to be found in any standard neurosurgery textbook. The questions to be examined here are the suitability of GKNS as a treatment once the diagnosis is established. Since the role of the treatment is in fact in debate for all the indications mentioned in this chapter, the subject matter will be limited to the commoner disease processes concerning which there is some degree of useful documentation. Moreover, it should be mentioned that stereotactic fractionated treatments are in use and their role is being assessed. They are however not included in this chapter being considered outside the scope of this book.

This chapter is also contributed by Paal-Henning Pedersen.

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    The information on tumour type and pathology for all groups is taken from http://www.icdns.org/,the website of the International Classification of Diseases of the Nervous System.

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