Diagnosis of Brain Tumors

Dear Colleagues, 

Brain tumors still raise great interest because of the continuously increasing number of diagnoses and their challenging management. In children, they account for the second cause of mortality for malignancy after blood cancers (or even for the first cause, in some Countries). In adults, metastasis from extracranial primary tumors, high-grade gliomas and meningiomas represent a very common problem to deal with in daily clinical practice. On these grounds, many efforts are being carried out to enhance the basic and clinical research, neurosurgical techniques and technologies and, of course, the clinical, pathological and radiological diagnoses. 

This Special Issue is focused on the advances on the diagnosis of brain tumors. Actually, the better the diagnosis, the higher the possibility to face these neoplasms. It is about a “deep breath” project encompassing all the spectrum of the diagnostic process and techniques, both in children and adults. With regard to basic research, studies on tumor biology and genetics as well as on biomarkers and proteomics are stimulated. As far as the clinical research is concerned, studies on the neuropsychological assessment of neuro-oncologic patients (especially in the COVID era) and on the neurosurgical techniques for brain biopsy are welcome. Finally, a relevant space will be devoted to the advances in “purely” diagnostic branches such as the histopathology and the neuroimaging. Both high-quality original or review articles are accepted. The goal of this issue, indeed, is to provide the readers a rich update of the diagnosis of brain tumors.

Dr. Luca Massimi
Guest Editor

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