Stereotactic guided laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (SLITT) in gliomas with intraoperative morphologic monitoring in an open MR: Clinical expierence

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 201-207

  Leonardi, M A ^a   Lumenta, C B ^a  

^a Academic Clinic Munich Bogenhausen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain Tumor; Interstitial Thermotherapy; Laser; MR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MONITORING; MORPHOLOGY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETREATMENT; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036953338     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36203     Document Type: Article

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