Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Saran, F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Saran, F.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Brain, Vol. 122, No. 10, 2002-2005, October 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

THE GLIOMAS.

.

F. Saran

Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK

In the Christmas issue of the BMJ (1998; p. 199), Christopher Martyn (Associate Editor of the BMJ), called the last 10 years of the 20th century `the decade of the brain'. Based on this background The Gliomas, edited by Mitchel S. Berger and Charles B. Wilson, is a welcome new textbook summarizing our current knowledge in the management of gliomas. The editors have been able to win contributors from both sides of the Atlantic to lead this field of oncology into the 21st century.

This new textbook focuses solely on the management of gliomas. In comparison with previous new textbooks within this area they have chosen to follow a different structure when approaching the subject. The book is divided into nine sections which are arranged in chronological order. Being used to a structure where each disease is reviewed separately after a broad general introduction, it took me some . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Notes


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?