Local Therapies for Glioma Present Status and Future Developments [Paperback]

In addition to surgery and radiotherapy, local treatment modalities for the management of brain tumours are increasingly being developed and clinically tested. This book describes for the first time basic tumour biology as well as all current procedures in progress at the most recent level of knowledge, presented by leading experts in the respective fields. Image guided resection procedures, fluorescence guided surgery, developments in interstitial radiosurgery are addressed, just as intracavitary chemotherapy and all current concepts and studies of interstitial targeted therapy. Owing to its topicality this book will remain for long the standard for this comprehensively treated subject.In addition to surgery and radiotherapy, local treatment modalities for the management of brain tumours are increasingly being developed and clinically tested. This book describes for the first time basic tumour biology as well as all current procedures in progress at the most recent level of knowledge, presented by leading experts in the respective fields. Image guided resection procedures, fluorescence guided surgery, developments in interstitial radiosurgery are addressed, just as intracavitary chemotherapy and all current concepts and studies of interstitial targeted therapy. Owing to its topicality this book will remain for long the standard for this comprehensively treated subject.Editors remarks: Evolving concepts for local therapies for glioma Z. Ram, M. Hadani: Intraoperative imaging  MRI P. C. Warnke: Stereotactic volumetric resection of gliomas W. Stummer, H.-J. Reulen, A. Novotny, H. Stepp, J.-C. Tonn: Fluorescence-guided resections of malignant gliomas  an overview M. Warmuth-Metz: Postoperative imaging after brain tumor resection C. Nimsky, O. Ganslandt, B. v. Keller, R. Fahlbusch: Preliminary experience in glioma surgery with intraoperative high-field MRI J. J??skel?inen, T. Randell: Awake craniotomy in glioma surgery S. C. Short: External beam and conl3