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Spinal Tumors: A Treatment Guide for Patients and Family

Author(s): Henry E. Aryan, MD, UCSF Department of Neurosurgery, Sierra Pacific Orthopaedic & Spine Center
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763757083
  • Paperback    121 pages      © 2010
Price: International Sales $24.95 US List
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Overview

In the United States there are 1.2 million new cancer cases diagnosed per year, and of this number, up to 30% of patients will develop symptomatic spinal metastasis. The management of metastatic cancer is an evolving discipline, and treatment strategies are constantly changing as technology improves and the understanding of cancer biology deepens. Spinal Tumors: A Treatment Guide for Patients and Family helps inform both patients and their families about treatment options and helps unlock the confusing, sophisticated, and sometimes contradictory information about the best ways to proceed with cancer treatment. Written by leading Neurosurgeon, Dr. Henry E. Aryan, this book is an essential resource for anyone dealing with the terrifying, exhausting, and confusing experience of symptomatic spinal metastasis.

 

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Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1: Anatomy of the Spine
  • Chapter 2: Epidemiology & Oncology Classification
  • Chapter 3: Types, Biology, & Pathology of Metastatic Tumors
  • Chapter 4: Clinical & Neurologic Manifestation of Spine Tumors
  • Chapter 5: Radiological Imaging & Diagnosis
  • Chapter 6: Chemotherapy
  • Chapter 7: External Beam Radiation
  • Chapter 8: Spinal Stereotactic Radiosurgery
  • Chapter 9: Interventional Procedures & Embolization
  • Chapter 10: Traditional Surgery & Spinal Reconstruction
  • Chapter 11: Spinal Rehabilitation
  • Chapter 12: Pain Management
  • Chapter 13: Alternative Medicine
  • Chapter 14: Natural History of Disease & Prognosis
  • Chapter 15: Counseling & Grief Management

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Henry E. Aryan, MD-UCSF Department of Neurosurgery, Sierra Pacific Orthopaedic & Spine Center

Henry E. Aryan, MD, is a neurosurgeon who completed his fellowship in Complex Spinal Reconstruction and Neurospinal Oncology from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He maintains an academic affiliation with UCSF as well as a private practice in Fresno, California, where he lives with his journalist wife and their two children.

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