Brain Tumors: Their Biology and Pathology

Abstract

This compact volume of some 300 pages makes available to English readers abundant information on the pathology of intracranial tumors, much of it derived from the author's long personal experience with these growths in Germany. Although there are still many points of disagreement as to the origin, nature, and proper terminology of the neoplasms, decades of study by many workers have dispelled much of the early confusion. The viewpoints expressed in this work will probably be found acceptable in large part by most American neuropathologists. Approximately half of the book is devoted to what is referred to in the subtitle as the biology of brain tumors. This includes, among others, such topics as the criteria for classification, frequency of occurrence, preferred sites of origin, manner of growth and secondary effects on the brain. The associated clinical phenomena, which might equally well be considered among the biological attributes of these neoplasms,