Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stroszczynski, Christian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 167
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

In the age of the World Wide Web, informed patients continue to surprise oncologists with detailed questions about popular tumor therapies. Although minimally invasive tumor therapies (MITT) have become daily clinical practice for palliative treatment of liver tumors, the acceptance of these palliat...

Table of Contents:

• Image Guidance of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies
• Use of Imaging Modalities for the Guidance of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies (MITT)
• Development of Navigation Systems for Image-Guided Laparoscopic Tumor Resections in Liver Surgery
• Methods of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies
• Radiofrequency Ablation: The Percutaneous Approach
• The Surgical Approach for Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors
• Laser-Induced Thermotherapy
• Clinical Results of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies
• Liver Metastases
• Percutaneous Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Lung Tumors
• Renal Tumors
• Thermal Ablation in Bone Tumors.