The book will be a useful support for neurosurgeons, students and practitioners in their everyday practice

Biology and Pathology of Cerebral Tumors.- Early Diagnosis of Supratentorial Tumors.- Prefrontal Tumors.- Precentral Tumors.- Parietal Lobe Tumors.- Temporal Lobe Tumors.- Occipital Lobe Tumors.- Sellar and Parasellar Tumors.- Hypophyseal Adenomas.- Craniopharyngioma.- Early Diagnosis of Posterior Cranial Fossa Tumors.- Tumors of the Cerebellar Vermis.- Tumors of the Cerebellar Hemispheres.- Tumors of the Fourth Ventricle.- Acoustic Neurinomas.- Acoustic Intrameatal Meningioma.- Early Diagnosis of Spinal Tumors.- General Syndrome.- Symptoms and Signs.- Pain.- Motor Deficiency.- Paresthesia.- Sensory Deficiency.- Sphinteric Disturbances.- Sexual Disturbances.- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Neurogenic Intermittent Claudication.- Transverse Section Syndrome.- The Early Syndrome.- Pathological Anatomy.- Radiological Aspects.- Glioblastoma Multiforme.- Anaplastic Astrocytoma.- Astrocytoma.- Pilocytic Astrocytoma.- Central Neurocytoma.- Oligodendroglioma.- Ganglioglioma and Gangliocytoma.- Astrocytoma of the Cerebellum.- Medulloblastoma.- Ependymoma.- Hemangioblastoma.- Meningioma.- Acoustic Nerve Neurinoma.- Trigeminal Neurinoma.- Chordoma.- Epidermoid Tumors.- Dermoid Tumors.- Germinomas.- Pinealomas.- Pinealoblastomas.- Colloid Cyst of the Third Ventricle.- Pituitary Adenomas.- Craniopharyngiomas.- Lymphomas.- Metastases.

It is common knowledge that a clinical diagnosis is based on a combination of symptoms and signs, observed in their evolution. Advancing the diagnosis at an early stage and particularly in the neurosurgical clinical examination would enhance the slightest possibility of recovery, theoretically almost transforming it into a concrete possibility. This book has a precise goal: to examine the "germ" of diagnostic suspicion, which is the true salt of medical art for every physician, general practitioner and specialist alike. In some cases also the characteristics of the late clinical picture are presented: today, though, this must be considered as a medical failure.