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V. Saxena, I. Gonzalez-Gomez, and W. E. Laug, A Noninvasive Multimodal Technique to Monitor Brain Tumor Vascularization, Phys. Med. Biol., 52,5295 (2007). 

Inhaled anesthetics decrease the metabolic rate of the brain. Nevertheless, the more soluble volatile agents increase cerebral blood flow because they decrease cerebral vascular resistance. The increase in cerebral blood flow is clinically undesirable in patients who have increased intracranial pressure because of a brain tumor or head injury. Volatile anesthetic-induced increases in cerebral blood flow increase cerebral blood volume and further increase intracranial pressure. 

Brain Studies. Rubidium-82 has also been used to study blood brain barrier changes in patients with brain tumors or Alzheimer s type senile dementia (28-30). The method of study is similar to the heart studies without gating. Figure 11 shows the uptake of Rb-82 in the three levels of a brain tumor. This non-invasive procedure provides information on the size and vascularity of the tumor. In the slice OM + 10 there is a vascular rim and a necrotic center in the tumor. The metabolism of glucose was determined in the same tumor patient using F-fluorodeoxyglucose produced on a cyclotron and the results correlated well with Rb-82 distribution. 

Indeed, your brain works so fast that you are always vulnerable to seizures in response to many different stimuli, such as a small head injury, a stroke, rapidly flashing lights, a tumor, vascular abnormalities, small hemorrhages, and so forth. Given the limitations of our brain physiology and chemistry, we are probably as smart as we possibly can be at this time in our species evolution. 

In the literature, stroke mimicry - the misdiagnosis of stroke due to a non-vascular medical condition that simulates a stroke syndrome - refers to cases where the diagnosis of a stroke was made on the basis of a skilled examination but finally turned out to be wrong. Typical examples of stroke mimicry are metabolic and toxic disturbances, complicated migraine, Todd s paralysis, conversion disorders and brain tumors. 

Brandsma D, Stalpers L, Ttial W, Sminia P, vtm den Bent MJ (2008) Clinical features, mechanisms, and management of pseudoprogression in mtiligntmt gliomas. Lancet Oncol 9 453-461 Bruce JN, Criscuolo GR, Merrill MJ, Moquin RR, Blackiock JB, Oldfield EH (1987) Vascular permeability induced by protein product of mtilignant brain tumors inhibition by dexamethasone. 

The relative efficaqr of entrapment of contrast materials into different liposomes as well as advantages and disadvantages of various liposome types were analyzed by Tilcock (157). Liposomal contrast agents have been used for experimental diagnostic imaging of liver, spleen, brain, cardio-vascular system, tumors, inflammations and infections (156, 158). 

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Myasthenia gravis Parkinson s disease Alzheimer s disease Cerebral palsy Cerebral vascular accident Brain tumors... 

Hagihara N, Walbridge S, Olson AW, et al. Vascular protection by chloroquine during brain tumor therapy with Tf-CRM107. Cancer Res 2000 60 230-254. 

Heiss JD, Papavassiliou E, Merrill MJ, et al. Mechanism of dexamethasone suppression of brain tumor-associated vascular permeability in rats. J Clin Invest 1996 98 1400-1408. 

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is currently undergoing intensive clinical investigations as an adjunctive treatment for malignant brain tumors. PDT is based on a higher accumulation of a photosensitiser in malignant over normal tissue with low systemic toxicity [9-11]. Subsequent light activation induces photooxidation followed by selective tumor destruction via vascular or direct cellular mechanisms [12-14]. 

Roberts, H.C., et al.. Quantitative measurement of micro-vascular permeability in human brain tumors achieved using dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging correlation with histologic grade. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 2000. 21(5) p. 891-9. 

History of intracranial hemorrhage or brain aneurysm or vascular malformation or brain tumor [may consider iv t-PA in patients with CNS lesions that have a very low likelihood of bleeding such as small unruptured aneurysms or benign tumors with low vascularity]... 

CNS lesion with high likelihood of hemorrhage s/p chemical thrombolytic agents (e.g., brain tumors, abscess, vascular malformation, aneurysm, contusion). Established bacterial endocarditis. 

Winkler F, Kozin SV, Tong RT, Chae SS, Booth MF, Garkavtsev I, Xu L, Hicklin DJ, Fukumura D, di Tomaso E, Munn LL, Jain RK. Kinetics of vascular normalization by VEGFR2 blockade governs brain tumor response to radiation role of oxygenation, angiopoietin-1, and matrix metalloproteinases. Cancer Cell 2004 6 553-563. 

Reddy GR, Bhojani MS, McConville P, et al. Vascular targeted nanoparticles for imaging and treatment of brain tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2006 12 6677-6686. 

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