Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Tumors in Dogs and Cats, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 1st Edition

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• Cover image

• Title page

• Table of Contents

• Copyright

• Contributors

• Forthcoming Issues

• Preface

• Introduction and Summary of Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Tumors in Dogs and Cats

• Key points

• Introduction

• Meningioma

• Glioma

• Lymphoma

• Histiocytic sarcoma

• Current evidence

• Emerging therapies/emerging treatment

• Challenges

• Current controversies

• Future considerations

• Summary

• Brain MRI Protocol and Systematic Approach to Interpretation of Brain Tumors on MRI

• Key points

• Introduction

• Discussion

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• MRI Characteristics of Primary Brain Tumors and Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Techniques

• Key points

• Introduction

• Discussion

• Extra-axial tumors

• Intra-axial tumors

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• Biopsy of Brain Lesions

• Key points

• Introduction

• Alternatives to biopsy

• What information is required from a brain biopsy?

• How to take a brain biopsy

• Complications of brain biopsy

• Why don’t veterinary neurologists take more brain biopsies?

• Future options

• Summary

• Complications in Intracranial Surgery of Companion Animals

• Key points

• Introduction

• Indications

• Surgical approaches to the brain

• Types of complications

• Preventative measures

• Conclusions/discussion

• Clinics care points

• Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumors in Dogs and Cats

• Key points

• Introduction

• Indications for radiation therapy in dogs and cats with brain tumors

• Patient evaluation and systemic staging prior to radiation therapy

• Radiation therapy

• Radiation treatment planning for brain tumors

• Clinical follow-up and monitoring after radiation therapy

• Potential adverse effects associated with radiation therapy

• General prognosis of dogs and cats with brain tumors treated with radiation therapy

• Meningiomas in dogs

• Meningiomas in cats

• Gliomas in dogs

• Choroid plexus tumors in dogs (rare in cats)

• Trigeminal nerve sheath tumors in dogs (rare in cats)

• Multilobular tumor of bone and other calvarial tumors

• Non-neoplastic inflammatory disease and multifocal central nervous system neoplasia

• Novel Treatments for Brain Tumors

• Key points

• Introduction

• Challenges to and opportunities for the development of brain tumor therapeutics

• Novel brain tumor therapeutic approaches

• Oncolytic viruses

• Immunotherapies

• Summary and future developments

• Transsphenoidal Surgery for Pituitary Tumors

• Key points

• Introduction

• The preoperative patient

• Surgery

• The post-surgical patient

• Challenges and future developments

• Recommendations

• Clinics care points

• Supplementary data

• Updates on Radiation Therapy for Pituitary Tumors: Techniques and Prognosis

• Key points

• Introduction

• Clinical presentation

• Current evidence

• Adverse events

• Discussion

• Recommendations

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• Ventriculoperitoneal Shunting for Brain Tumors

• Key points

• Introduction

• Pathophysiology of acute obstructive hydrocephalus

• Case selection

• Diagnostics and preoperative planning

• Equipment and materials

• Implantation of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt

• Adverse events/challenges

• Troubleshooting

• Discussion

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• Intraoperative Ultrasound in Brain Surgery

• Key points

• Introduction

• Advantages and disadvantages of intraoperative ultrasound

• Technique and producing quality images

• Probe selection

• Case examples

• Discussion

• Summary

• Clinics care point

• Supplementary data

Helena Rylander, DVM, DACVIM, Clinical Professor Neurology, Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI, USA