Publisher's Synopsis
An update of the IARC publication "Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of the Nervous System", published in 1997. The new edition is also the official WHO classification of tumours. The number of colour photographs has been further increased and the genetic section has been expanded. Citations are covered until January 2000. The book is dispatched by IARC, WHO Headquarters, Oxford University Press (UK) and Oxford University Press (USA).