Tumors of the Central Nervous System

Herrmann, H.-D.

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H.-D. Herrmann

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Abstract

The large variety of primary and secondary tumors of the central nervous system has almost the same magnitude as the tumors in the rest of the body. Hence the following brief survey can only outline diagnostic and therapeutic principles of the most frequent and important neoplasms.

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Bleehen NM (ed) (1986) Tumors of the brain. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Walker MD (ed) (1983) Oncology of the nervous system. Nijhoff, Leiden
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Highland Hospital, 1000 South Avenue, Rochester, NY, USA
Charles D. Sherman Jr. MD (Chairman, UICC Professional Education Program, Clinical Professor of Surgery) (Chairman, UICC Professional Education Program, Clinical Professor of Surgery)
Medical University Clinic, Martinistrasse 52, D-2000, Hamburg 20, Germany
Dieter K. Hossfeld MD (Chairman, Manual Revision Project, Profesor of Internal Medicine, Oncology and Hematology) (Chairman, Manual Revision Project, Profesor of Internal Medicine, Oncology and Hematology)
University of Wisconsin, 1300 University Ave.,Room 7615, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
Richard R. Love MD (Senior Editor, Part I, MCO, Associate Professor of Human Oncology) (Senior Editor, Part I, MCO, Associate Professor of Human Oncology)
Unit of Field and Intervention Studies, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 150 Cours Albert-Thomas, Lyon Cedex 08, 69372, France
F. X. Bosch MD

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Herrmann, HD. (1982). Tumors of the Central Nervous System. In: Sherman, C.D., Hossfeld, D.K., Love, R.R., Bosch, F.X. (eds) Manual of Clinical Oncology. UICC International Union Against Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97267-6_31

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