Cancer neurology in clinical practice / edited by David Schiff and Patrick Y. Wen ; foreword by Jerome B. Posner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part I. Overview -- 1 The Prevalence and Impact of Neurologic Disease in Cancer -- Charles J. Vecht, MD, PhD -- Part II. Neurologic Symptoms -- 2 The Epidemiology and Management of Seizures in Patients with Cancer -- Michael J. Glantz, MD and Keith R. Edwards, MD -- 3 Corticosteroids in Neuro-Oncology, -- Nina A. Paleologos, MD and Nicholas A. Vick, MD -- 4 Headache Associated with Intracranial Neoplasms -- Siraj M. Husain, MD, FRCPC and Peter A. Forsyth, MD -- 5 Confusion and Delirium -- Augusto Caraceni, MD, Marco Bosisio, PhD, -- and Jane M. Ingham, MB, BS, FRACP -- 6 Cancer Pain -- Julie E. Hammack, MD -- Part III. Direct Complications of Cancer -- 7 Brain Metastases -- Raja B. Khan, MD and Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD -- 8 Skull and Dural Metastases -- Ben P. W. Jansen, MD and Peter A. E. Sillevis Smitt, MD, PhD -- 9 Spinal Metastases -- David Schiff, MD -- 10 Leptomeningeal Metastases -- Warren P. Mason, MD, FRCPC -- 11 Neuromuscular Disease and Its Complications -- Magdy Selim, MD, PhD, David A. Chad, MD, and Lawrence D. Recht, MD -- Part IV. Indirect Complications of Cancer -- 12 Cerebrovascular Complications of Cancer -- Megan C. Leary, MD and Jeffrey L. Saver, MD -- 13 Paraneoplastic Syndromes of the Nervous System -- Myrna R. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD and Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD -- Part V. Complications of Cancer Therapy -- 14 Neurologic Sequelae of Radiotherapy on the Nervous System -- Anthony Behin, MD and Jean-Yves Delattre, MD -- 15 Cancer and Cancer Treatment-Related Neuromuscular Disease -- Casilda Balmaceda, MD and Elina Korkin, BS -- 16 Central Nervous System Complications of Cancer Therapy -- Patrick Y. Wen, MD -- 17 Neurologic Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation -- Hendrikus G. J. Krouwer, MD, PhD and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD -- 18 Central Nervous System Infections in Cancer Patients -- Neil E. Anderson, MB, CHB, FRACP and Mark G. Thomas, MD, FRACP, FRCPA -- Part VI. Diagnostic Studies -- 19 Imaging Neurologic Manifestations of Oncologic Disease -- Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD and Melanie B. Fukui, MD -- Part VII. Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Specific Malignancies -- 20 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Lung Cancer -- Suriya A. Jeyapalan, MD, MA and John W. Henson, MD -- 21 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Breast Cancer -- Willem Boogerd, MD, PhD -- 22 Neurologic Complications of Genitourinary Malignancies -- David Schiff, MD, Donald L. Trump, MD, and Patrick Y. Wen, MD -- 23 Melanoma -- Denise M. Damek, MD -- 24 Leukemia -- Hanny Haaxma-Reiche, MD, PhD -- 25 Neurologic Complications of Hodgkin's Disease and the Non-Hodgkin's -- Lymphomas -- Brian Patrick O'Neill, MD -- 26 Neurologic Disorders in Benign and Malignant Plasma Cell Dyscrasias -- John J. Kelly, MD -- 27 Female Reproductive Tract Cancers -- Lauren E. Abrey, MD -- 28 Neurologic Complications of Gastrointestinal Malignancies -- Deborah T. Blumenthal, MD and Richard H. Wheeler, MD -- 29 Neuro-Oncologic Complications of Sarcomas -- Lara J. Kunschner, MD -- 30 Neurologic Complications of Head and Neck Cancer -- David Schiff, MD, Dong M. Shin, MD, Paul L. Moots, MD, -- and Ronald G. Wiley, MD -- 31 Neurologic Complications in Children with Systemic Cancer -- Nuno Lobo Antunes, MD.