Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Primary Tumors of the Axial Spine
(Paul E. Kaloostian, Patricia Zadnik and Daniel M. Sciubba, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA)
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Chapter 2: Current Strategies in the Management of Metastatic Spine Disease and Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression
(Haroon Majeed, Registrar Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals of North Staffordshire, United Kingdom)
Chapter 3: Surgical Strategy for the Management of Metastatic Spine Tumors: Indications, Techniques and Outcomes
(Cédric Y. Barrey, Luis Manera, Didier Frappaz, Aurélie Fontana, Véronique Favrel, Jean-Baptiste Pialat, Gualter Vaz and Gilles Perrin, Department of Spine Surgery, P Wertheimer Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France and others)
Chapter 4: Spinal Chordomas
(Paul E. Kaloostian, Patricia Zadnik, Ziya L. Gokaslan and Daniel M. Sciubba, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA)
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Chapter 5: Imaging of Notochordal Tumors
(Prabhakar Rajiah, Hakan Ilaslan and Murali Sundaram, Musculoskeletal Imaging Section, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA)
Chapter 6: Aminobisphosphonates and Nano-Technologically Modified Aminobisphosphonates: A New Dawn in the Treatment of Bone and Extra-Bone Tumors?
(Michele Caraglia, Gabriella Misso and Daniele Santini, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy and others)
Chapter 7: Malignant Transformation of Benign Bone Tumors with Special Reference to Giant-Cell Tumor and Giant-Cell–Containing Lesions
(Tsuyoshi Saito, Department of Human Pathology, Juntendo University, School of Medicine, Japan)
Chapter 8: Calvarial Lesions: Classification and Management
(Mahmoud Messerer and Julie Dubourg, Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland and others)
Chapter 9: Secondary Bone Tumors in Prostate Cancer: New Treatments on the Horizon
(Justin Sturge, Biomedical Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom)
Chapter 10: Skull-Base Metastases: Clinical Features and Management Strategies
(Julie Dubourg and Mahmoud Messerer, Research and Education Unit of Medicine, Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France and others)
Chapter 11: Painful Boney Metastases
(Howard S. Smith, Department of Anesthesiology, Albany Medical College
Albany, New York, NY, USA)
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