Local Therapies for Glioma Present Status and Future Developments /

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 knowle...

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Main Author: Westphal, M.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Tonn, Jörg-Christian, 1958-, Ram, Z.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2003.
Series:Acta neurochirurgica. Supplement ; 88.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 181 pages)
ISBN:9783709160909 (electronic bk.)
3709160901 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0065-1419 ;