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Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermotherapy

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Image-guided thermal ablation of hepatic malignancies has been successfully performed with laser applicators. Local control rates after laser ablation of HCC and hepatic metastases as well as 1-, 3-, and 5-year survival rates are now available, and they support a competitive role to other methods of ablative therapy in the management of hepatic malignancies with an acceptably low rate of major complications.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt am Main, 60596, Germany

    Thomas J. Vogl, Alexandra Jost, Mohamed Nabil & Martin G. Mack

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  1. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Diagnostic Imaging Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Damian E. Dupuy

  2. Department of Surgery and Radiology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA

    Yuman Fong

  3. McMullen Consulting, LLC, Surprise, Arizona, USA

    William N. McMullen

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Vogl, T.J., Jost, A., Nabil, M., Mack, M.G. (2013). Laser-Induced Interstitial Thermotherapy. In: Dupuy, D., Fong, Y., McMullen, W. (eds) Image-Guided Cancer Therapy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0751-6_36

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