Edited by Jerzy Hildebrand and Michael Brada (Pp 298, £59.50). Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. ISBN 0-19-263213-2

• diagnosis
• oncology
• neurology

This book is written by two very experienced, eminent, and respected European neuro-oncologists. The aim of the book as described in the introduction is assisting in the correct diagnosis and therapeutic management of patients with neurological syndromes due to neoplastic conditions. The neurological syndromes in cancer patients cover the spectrum of neuro-oncological sites and each chapter is broken down into subheadings of introduction, clinical presentation, main aetiologies, investigations, treatment, and appropriate references. The neurological syndromes covered are altered consciousness, cognitive and behavioural disorders, epileptic seizures, cerebellar dysfunction, visual alterations, cranial nerve and brain stem lesions, spinal …