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by Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD, and Jerome B. Posner, MD, 634 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 978-0-19-536674-7, New York, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009.

Michael Weller, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 2009;66(7):908-909.

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Brain metastases are the most common brain tumors. Moreover, no other organ system is as often and critically affected by adverse effects of surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy for systemic cancer as the nervous system. A profound knowledge of Neurologic Complications of Cancer is therefore essential for all clinical neurologists. Few experts would question the notion that nobody could provide a more authoritative review of this topic than Lisa M. DeAngelis and Jerome B. Posner. This is what they provide us here.

The 3 sections of this book cover (1) general principles of oncology with relevance to neurology, (2) metastatic disease of the nervous system, and (3) nonmetastatic complications of cancer. A series of helpful tables summarize common oncology scores as well as algorithms for diagnosis and treatment. The schematic and original illustrations of macroscopic and microscopic pathology as well as neuroimaging represent a superb collection of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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