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Volume 6, Number 41 - 8 October 2007 |
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| Diagnosis & Evaluation | |
| Epidemiology & Risk Factors | |
| Etiology & Pathogenesis | |
| Integrative Medicine | |
| Overall Management | |
| Prognosis & Outcome | |
| Treatment | |
| Children's Corner | |
| Patients & Caregivers | |
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Feigl
GC, Safavi-Abbasi S, Gharabaghi A, Gonzalez-Felipe V, El Shawarby A, Freund
HJ, Samii M.
Real-time 3T fMRI data of brain tumour patients for intra-operative localization of primary motor areas. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2007 Sep 27; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17904784 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] |
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Grana
L, Santamaria N, Yus M, Mendez R.
[Calcified cerebral metastasis.] Radiologia. 2007 Sep-Oct;49(5):335-7. Spanish. PMID: 17910868 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Henigsberg
N, Kovacic Z, Kalember P.
Use of non-invasive neuroradiological methods in research of psychoactive drugs. Psychiatr Danub. 2007 Sep;19(3):234-7. PMID: 17914326 [PubMed - in process] |
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Huang
Q, Wang D, Guo Y, Zhou X, Wang X, Li X.
The diagnosis and neuroendoscopic treatment of noncommunicating intracranial arachnoid cysts. Surg Neurol. 2007 Aug;68(2):149-54; discussion 154. PMID: 17662345 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Lemort
M, Canizares-Perez AC, Van der Stappen A, Kampouridis S.
Progress in magnetic resonance imaging of brain tumours. Curr Opin Oncol. 2007 Nov;19(6):616-22. PMID: 17906462 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Soussain
C, Muldoon LL, Varallyay C, Jahnke K, DePaula L, Neuwelt EA.
Characterization and magnetic resonance imaging of a rat model of human B-cell central nervous system lymphoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Apr 15;13(8):2504-11. PMID: 17438111 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Scholz
M, Lorenz A, Pesavento A, Brendel B, Khaled W, Engelhardt M, Pechlivanis I,
Noack V, Harders A, Schmieder K.
Current Status of Intraoperative Real-time Vibrography in Neurosurgery. Ultraschall Med. 2007 Oct;28(5):493-7. PMID: 17918047 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Spreafico
F, Gandola L, Marchiano A, Simonetti F, Poggi G, Adduci A, Clerici CA,
Luksch R, Biassoni V, Meazza C, Catania S, Terenziani M, Musumeci R,
Fossati-Bellani F, Massimino M.
Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging after High-Dose Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy for Childhood Brain Tumors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Sep 26; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17904307 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]: |
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Albano
JD, Ward E, Jemal A, Anderson R, Cokkinides VE, Murray T, Henley J, Liff J,
Thun MJ. Cancer mortality in the United States by education level and race. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Sep 19;99(18):1384-94. Epub 2007 Sep 11. PMID: 17848670 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Fondelli
MC, Costantini AS, Ercolanelli M, Pizzo AM, Maltoni SA, Quinn MM.
Exposure to carcinogens and mortality in a cohort of restoration workers of water-damaged library materials following the River Arno flooding in Florence, 4 November 1966. Med Lav. 2007 Sep-Oct;98(5):422-31. PMID: 17907535 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Barnett
JA, Urbauer DL, Murray GI, Fuller GN, Heimberger AB.
Cytochrome P450 1B1 expression in glial cell tumors: an immunotherapeutic target. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Jun 15;13(12):3559-67. PMID: 17575219 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]; |
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Bru
A, Del Fresno C, Soares-Schanoski A, Albertos S, Bru I, Porres A,
Rollan-Landeras E, Dopazo A, Casero D, Gomez-Pina V, Garcia L, Arnalich F,
Alvarez R, Rodriguez-Rojas A, Fuentes-Prior P, Lopez-Collazo E.
Position-dependent expression of GADD45alpha in rat brain tumours. Med Oncol. 2007;24(4):436-44. PMID: 17917095 [PubMed - in process] |
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Bulnes
S, Lafuente JV.
VEGF Immunopositivity Related to Malignancy Degree, Proliferative Activity and Angiogenesis in ENU-Induced Gliomas. J Mol Neurosci. 2007;33(2):163-72. PMID: 17917075 [PubMed - in process] |
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Gil-Benso
R, Lopez-Gines C, Benito R, Lopez-Guerrero JA, Callaghan RC, Pellin A,
Roldan P, Cerda-Nicolas M.
Concurrent EGFR amplification and TP-53 mutation in glioblastomas. Clin Neuropathol. 2007 Sep-Oct;26(5):224-31. PMID: 17907599 [PubMed - in process]: |
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Kusters
B, Kats G, Roodink I, Verrijp K, Wesseling P, Ruiter DJ, de Waal RM,
Leenders WP.
Micronodular transformation as a novel mechanism of VEGF-A-induced metastasis. Oncogene. 2007 Aug 23;26(39):5808-15. Epub 2007 Mar 12. PMID: 17353901 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]; |
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Lyons
SA, Chung WJ, Weaver AK, Ogunrinu T, Sontheimer H.
Autocrine glutamate signaling promotes glioma cell invasion. Cancer Res. 2007 Oct 1;67(19):9463-71. PMID: 17909056 [PubMed - in process]: |
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Nikuseva-Martic
T, Beros V, Pecina-Slaus N, Ivan Pecina H, Bulic-Jakus F.
Genetic changes of CDH1, APC, and CTNNB1 found in human brain tumors. Pathol Res Pract. 2007 Sep 28; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17905526 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] |
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Panner
A, Murray JC, Berger MS, Pieper RO.
Heat Shock Protein 90{alpha} Recruits FLIPS to the Death-Inducing Signaling Complex and Contributes to TRAIL Resistance in Human Glioma. Cancer Res. 2007 Oct 1;67(19):9482-9. PMID: 17909058 [PubMed - in process] |
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Ren
ZP, Olofsson T, Qu M, Hesselager G, Soussi T, Kalimo H, Smits A, Nister M.
Molecular Genetic Analysis of p53 Intratumoral Heterogeneity in Human Astrocytic Brain Tumors. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2007 Oct;66(10):944-954. PMID: 17917588 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]; |
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Taylan
H, Kiratli H, Aktas D.
Monosomy 7 mosaicism in metastatic choroidal melanoma. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2007 Aug;177(1):70-2. PMID: 17693195 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Yin
D, Kawabata H, Tcherniamtchouk O, Huynh T, Black KL, Koeffler HP.
Glioblastoma multiforme cells: Expression of erythropoietin receptor and response to erythropoietin. Int J Oncol. 2007 Nov;31(5):1193-8. PMID: 17912447 [PubMed - in process] |
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Dimitropoulou
P, Nayee S, Liu JF, Demetriou L, van Tongeren M, Hepworth SJ, Muir KR.
Dietary zinc intake and brain cancer in adults: a case-control study. Br J Nutr. 2007 Oct 2;:1-7 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17908366 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]: |
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Buckner
JC, Brown PD, O'neill BP, Meyer FB, Wetmore CJ, Uhm JH.
Central Nervous System Tumors. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007 Oct;82(10):1271-1287. PMID: 17908533 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]: |
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Helland
CA, Wester K.
A population based study of intracranial arachnoid cysts: clinical and neuroimaging outcomes following surgical cyst decompression in adults. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2007 Oct;78(10):1129-35. Epub 2007 Feb 13. PMID: 17299015 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Hildebrand
J.
Brain and nervous system. Curr Opin Oncol. 2007 Nov;19(6):596-7. No abstract available. PMID: 17906458 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Izci
Y, Secer HI, Gonul E, Onguru O.
Simultaneously occurring vestibular schwannoma and meningioma in the cerebellopontine angle: case report and literature review. Clin Neuropathol. 2007 Sep-Oct;26(5):219-23. PMID: 17907598 [PubMed - in process] |
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Kaczala
GW, Poskitt KJ, Steinbok P, Hendson G, Eydoux P, Solimano AJ.
Neonatal Macrocephaly: Cerebral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor or Neuroblastoma as an Infrequent Cause-A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Am J Perinatol. 2007 Oct 1; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17909991 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] |
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Lonnrot
K, Terho M, Kahara V, Haapasalo H, Helen P.
Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma: novel aspects in clinical presentation and genetics. Surg Neurol. 2007 Sep;68(3):304-8; discussion 308. PMID: 17719974 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Moiyadi
AV, Moiyadi AA, Sampath S, Kalpana SR, Mahadevan A, Shankar SK, Srikanth SG.
Intracranial metastasis from a glandular variant of atrial myxoma. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2007 Oct 1; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17906966 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] |
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Souza
RG, Cunha IC, Reichert MC, Diccini S.
[Neurological disorders and dependence of nursing care in patients with brain tumor] Rev Gaucha Enferm. 2007 Jun;28(2):180-6. Portuguese. PMID: 17907638 [PubMed - in process] |
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Thompson
EM, Sather MD, Reyes CA, Long DJ.
Intracranial leptomeningeal metastasis from thymic carcinoma: case report and review. Surg Neurol. 2007 Aug;68(2):233-8. Epub 2007 May 29. Review. PMID: 17537485 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Winkler
F, Gschwendtner A, Theisen D, Peraud A, Straube A.
Reversible dementia and corresponding CSF alterations due to intraspinal lumbosacral metastasis of a prostate carcinoma. Eur J Neurol. 2007 Sep 28; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17903211 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]; |
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Hargrave
D, Chuang N, Bouffet E. Conventional MRI cannot predict survival in childhood diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. J Neurooncol. 2007 Oct 2; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17909941 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]; |
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Zitterbart
K, Zavrelova I, Kadlecova J, Spesna R, Kratochvilova A, Pavelka Z, Sterba J.
p73 expression in medulloblastoma: TAp73/DeltaNp73 transcript detection and possible association of p73alpha/DeltaNp73 immunoreactivity with survival. Acta Neuropathol (Berl). 2007 Oct 3; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17912537 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]; |
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Andersson
U, Johansson D, Behnam-Motlagh P, Johansson M, Malmer B.
Treatment schedule is of importance when gefitinib is combined with irradiation of glioma and endothelial cells in vitro. Acta Oncol. 2007;46(7):951-60. PMID: 17917826 [PubMed - in process] |
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Chen
X, Weigel D, Ganslandt O, Fahlbusch R, Buchfelder M, Nimsky C. Diffusion tensor-based fiber tracking and intraoperative neuronavigation for the resection of a brainstem cavernous angioma. Surg Neurol. 2007 Sep;68(3):285-91; discussion 291. PMID: 17719968 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Chesler
L, Goldenberg DD, Seales IT, Satchi-Fainaro R, Grimmer M, Collins R, Struett
C, Nguyen KN, Kim G, Tihan T, Bao Y, Brekken RA, Bergers G, Folkman J, Weiss
WA.
Malignant progression and blockade of angiogenesis in a murine transgenic model of neuroblastoma. Cancer Res. 2007 Oct 1;67(19):9435-42. PMID: 17909053 [PubMed - in process] |
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Cheuk
DK, Lee TL, Chiang AK, Ha SY, Chan GC. Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for high-risk brain tumors in children. J Neurooncol. 2007 Sep 29; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17906911 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]; |
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Corsten
MF, Miranda R, Kasmieh R, Krichevsky AM, Weissleder R, Shah K. MicroRNA-21 Knockdown Disrupts Glioma Growth In vivo and Displays Synergistic Cytotoxicity with Neural Precursor Cell Delivered S-TRAIL in Human Gliomas. Cancer Res. 2007 Oct 1;67(19):8994-9000. PMID: 17908999 [PubMed - in process] |
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Fujimoto
S.
Promising Antitumor Activity of a Novel Quinoline Derivative, TAS-103, against Fresh Clinical Specimens of Eight Types of Tumors Measured by Flow Cytometric DNA Analysis. Biol Pharm Bull. 2007 Oct;30(10):1923-9. 
PMID: 17917263 [PubMed - in process]
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Fulci
G, Dmitrieva N, Gianni D, Fontana EJ, Pan X, Lu Y, Kaufman CS, Kaur B,
Lawler SE, Lee RJ, Marsh CB, Brat DJ, van Rooijen N, Rachamimov AS, Hochberg
FH, Weissleder R, Martuza RL, Chiocca EA. Depletion of peripheral macrophages and brain microglia increases brain tumor titers of oncolytic viruses. Cancer Res. 2007 Oct 1;67(19):9398-406. PMID: 17909049 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Grill
J, Bhangoo R.
Recent development in chemotherapy of paediatric brain tumours. Curr Opin Oncol. 2007 Nov;19(6):612-5. PMID: 17906461 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Gupta
B, Levchenko TS, Torchilin VP.
TAT peptide-modified liposomes provide enhanced gene delivery to intracranial human brain tumor xenografts in nude mice. Oncol Res. 2007;16(8):351-9. PMID: 17913043 [PubMed - in process] |
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Jung
TY, Jung S, Jin SG, Jin YH, Kim IY, Kang SS, Kim SH.
Prevention of postoperative subdural fluid collections following transcortical transventricular approach. Surg Neurol. 2007 Aug;68(2):172-6; discussion 176. PMID: 17662354 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Kumabe
T, Fujimura M, Jokura H, Tominaga T.
Surgical treatment for choroid plexus tumors in the fourth ventricle: brain stem infiltration hinders total extirpation. Neurosurg Rev. 2007 Oct 3; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17912563 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] |
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Liu
TC, Wakimoto H, Martuza RL, Rabkin SD.
Herpes simplex virus us3( ) mutant as oncolytic strategy and synergizes with phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-akt targeting molecular therapeutics. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Oct 1;13(19):5897-902. PMID: 17908985 [PubMed - in process] |
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Rabadan
AT, Hernandez D, Eleta M, Pietrani M, Baccanelli M, Christiansen S, Teijido
C.
Factors related to surgical complications and their impact on the functional status in 236 open surgeries for malignant tumors in a Latinoamerican hospital. Surg Neurol. 2007 Oct;68(4):412-20. PMID: 17905066 [PubMed - in process]; |
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Sanus
GZ, Hanimoglu H, Tanriverdi T, Yilmaz E, Ak H, Ulu MO, Kafadar AM, Canbaz B,
Kaynar MY.
Cerebral cavernomas and human leukocyte antigens: preliminary clinical results. Surg Neurol. 2007 Aug;68(2):164-6; discussion 167. PMID: 17662350 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Ulasov
IV, Rivera AA, Nettelbeck DM, Rivera LB, Mathis JM, Sonabend AM, Tyler M,
Wang M, Douglas JT, Lesniak MS.
An oncolytic adenoviral vector carrying the tyrosinase promoter for glioma gene therapy. Int J Oncol. 2007 Nov;31(5):1177-85. PMID: 17912445 [PubMed - in process] |
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van
Herk M.
Different styles of image-guided radiotherapy. Semin Radiat Oncol. 2007 Oct;17(4):258-67. PMID: 17903703 [PubMed - in process] |
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Elisabetta Mancini
La locanda dell’anatra zoppa (The Limping Duck) English translation by Jane Wilson & Jaqueline Hargrave 
BrainLife,
3 October 2007.
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