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By Thomas J. Vogl, Thomas Helmberger, Martin G. Mack, Maximilian F Reiser

ISBN-10: 3540225188

ISBN-13: 9783540225188

Thermal ablation has turn into a vital part of oncology, particularly within the box of interventional oncology. This very finished ebook encompasses the several applied sciences hired in thermal ablation, its symptoms and the implications accomplished in quite a few scientific stipulations. the 1st a part of the booklet sincerely explains the fundamentals of thermal ablative thoughts similar to laser-induced thermotherapy, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, cryotherapy, and localized tumor remedy. basically a part of the ebook, concepts of guiding the applicators to the objective buildings by means of use of other imaging instruments are mentioned. the consequences are awarded for various medical symptoms, together with liver and lung tumors and metastases and a few quite infrequent stipulations concerning the kidney, the top and neck, the prostate, and smooth tissue buildings. a good number of stated specialists have contributed to the e-book, which advantages from a lucid constitution and perfect photographs.

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1995) presented a carefully controlled prospective trial showing that median survival of patients with minimal disease ovarian cancer (tumors <2 cm) was 8 months longer after intraperitoneal cisplatin plus iv cyclophosphamide than after iv cisplatin plus iv cyclophosphamide. Results of this study were confirmed by a large Intergroup Study in 2001 showing a survival advantage for the group of patients treated by intraperitoneal chemotherapy (iv paclitaxel/intraperitoneal carboplatin) of 28 as compared to 22 months (Markman et al.

Therefore, treatment time is significantly shorter with laser. 1 Laser System and Application Set Fig. 1. The Nd:YAG laser Dornier MediLas 5100 Laser coagulation is performed using a Neodymium-YAG laser (Fig. 1) (Dornier MediLas 5060 or Dornier MediLas 5100) with a specially developed flexible laser applicator. Furthermore an application kit for percutaneous treatment was developed and optimized for our purposes. Laser light with a wavelength of 1046 nm is transmitted to tissue with a diffusing applicator.

1998). In several recent publications (Deardorff et al. 2001; Wright et al. 2003), the opposite effect was described for MW ablation, where a selective tracking of the ablation zone along blood vessels was discovered. Up to now, no complete explanation has been found for this effect. It was suggested that the presence of a vessel causes a distortion or extension of the energy distribution pattern of the electromagnetic irradiation (Deardorff et al. 2001). The effect was also suggested to possibly be caused by thermally produced vapor traveling though the vessel (Wright et al.

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