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High-Grade Gliomas: Diagnosis and Treatment is part of the Humana Press Current Clinical Oncology series. This edited work is composed of five parts: classification of high-grade gliomas, clinical characteristics, diagnostic tools, management, and contemporary investigational treatments. The 27 chapters were written by 60 contributing authors. The book comes with a CD-ROM of figures, tables, and photomicrographs from the book.

High-Grade Gliomas is concise and inclusive, but by no means an exhaustive textbook on this subject. The book gives the reader a broad sampling of the diagnostic tools used in the setting of high-grade gliomas, including chapters on computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, imaging tumor biology, nuclear imaging of gliomas, and magnetoencephalography. The tumor classification section is well done, with photomicrographs in black and white, undoubtedly to save publication costs. The tumor classification section, while short, is concise and inclusive with respect to some of the areas of current debate in tumor classification.

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