The imaging and clinical management of patients with brain tumor continue to evolve over
time and now heavily rely on physiologic imaging in addition to high-resolution structural …

Conventional, anatomical MRI is an essential tool for diagnosis and evaluation of location,
quality, and extent of posterior fossa tumors, but offers limited information regarding tumor …

This book on the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumours of the nervous
system reflects the view of a working group that convened for an editorial and consensus …

Pilocytic astrocytoma is the most common pediatric central nervous system glial neoplasm
and the most common pediatric cerebellar tumor. This tumor has a noteworthy benign …

Background. Supratentorial pilocytic astrocytomas are uncommon tumors, the prognosis and
management of which have been controversial. Methods. The authors retrospectively …

Background Pilocytic astrocytoma can be challenging to diagnose. Methods Its clinical
presentations can differ, directly related to its size and location, and are relatively unreliable …

Fig. 2.—46-year-old woman with glioblastoma multiforme. A, Axial T1-weighted MR image
shows hypointensity (arrow) of left parietal white matter extending across corpus callosum …

Low-grade gliomas represent the most frequent brain tumors arising during childhood. They
are characterized by a broad and heterogeneous group of tumors that are currently …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The differentiation of pilocytic astrocytomas and high-
grade astrocytomas is sometimes difficult. There are limited comparisons in the literature of …

The posterior fossa is the suboccipital or infratentorial compartment of the cranial vault,
which extends from tentorium cerebelli superiorly to foramen magnum inferiorly, housing the …