Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors

Unique in the field, Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors presents commonly encountered skull base and intrinsic neoplasm cases with side-by-side, case-by-case comparisons that clearly show how various experts would handle the same case. This inaugural volume in the Neurosurgery: Case Comparison Series offers multiple opinions from international experts in neurosurgery who provide various approaches and management styles for the same case. This format allows for quick and helpful comparisons of different ways to approach a lesion, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and what each expert is looking for in how they would manage a particular case.

Table of Contents:
I. Introduction
II. Supratentorial intrinsic neoplasm
a. Low grade gliomas
i. Right frontal pole low grade glioma
ii. Right peri-Rolandic low grade glioma
iii. Left peri-Rolandic high grade glioma
iv. Left Broca’s area low grade glioma
v. Left Wernicke’s area low grade glioma
vi. Right insular low grade glioma
vii. Left insular low grade glioma
viii. Occipital lobe low grade glioma
ix. Gliomatosis cererbi
b. High grade gliomas
i. Right frontal pole high grade glioma
ii. Right peri-Rolandic high grade glioma
iii. Left peri-Rolandic high grade glioma
iv. Left Broca’s area high grade glioma
v. Left Wernicke’s area high grade glioma
vi. Right insular high grade glioma
vii. Left insular high grade glioma
viii. Occipital lobe high grade glioma
ix. Left thalamic high grade glioma
x. Left basal ganglia high grade glioma
xi. Recurrent high grade glioma
c. Metastatic tumors
i. Peri-Rolandic metastasis
ii. 2 metastases
iii. 3 metastases
iv. Basal ganglia metastasis
v. Multiple metastases but one is symptomatic
vi. Intraventricular metastasis
vii. Sellar metastasis
d. Other lesions
i. Peri-Rolandic abscess
ii. Temporal arachnoid cyst
iii. Sphenoid encephalocele
III. Infratentorial intrinsic neoplasm
i. Cerebellar metastasis
ii. Cerebellar hemangioblastoma
iii. Middle cerebellar peduncle cavernoma
iv. Vermian metastasis
v. Medullary non exophytic glioma
vi. Medullary exophytic glioma
IV. Intraventricular lesions
i. Colloid cyst
ii. Intraventricular meningioma
iii. Central neurocytoma
iv. Craniopharyngioma with extension into the 3rd ventricule
v. 4th ventricular ependymoma
vi. Choroid plexus papilloma
vii. Medulloblastoma
V. Anterior fossa skull base lesions
i. Olfactory groove meningioma
ii. Esthesioneuroblastoma
iii. Parasagittal meningioma
iv. Parafalcine meningioma
v. Pituitary adenoma
vi. Skull base meta