Current applications of MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy in the treatment of brain neoplasms and epilepsy: A radiologic and neurosurgical overview

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1998-2006

  Medvid, R ^a   Ruiz, A ^a   Komotar, R J ^a   Jagid, J R ^a   Ivan, M E ^a   Quencer, R M ^a   Desai, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DYSPHAGIA; EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LASER THERMOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING GUIDED LASER INTERSTITIAL THERMAL THERAPY; MENINGITIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIATION PHYSICS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WEAKNESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84947439984     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A4362     Document Type: Review

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