MRI Atlas of Central Nervous System Tumors

Following an introductory chapter which presents the scientific basis of the complex phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance and MR imaging, this study explores MR anatomy of the brain and the classification of tumours of the central nervous system. Further essays deal with one of the following: neuroepithelial tumours, pineal region tumours, meningiomas, neurinomas, pituitary adenomas and craniopharyngiomas, angiomas and aneurysms producing mass effect, intracranial metastatic tumours, rare tumours, expansive nontumoural lesions and spinal tumours. There is a brief clinical discussion on each of these topics, and each chapter is illustrated with reproductions of MR images of these lesions.