Volume 3 (2014) • Issue 2

Editorial

Page 67 Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) of the brain – Experiences and new indications
Wernholt von Tempelhoff and Frank Ulrich
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Magazine section

Page 71 Snapshots
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Reviews

Page 77 Laser interstitial thermal therapy with and without MRI guidance for treatment of brain neoplasms – A systematic review of the literature
Jeffrey D. Voigt and Mark Torchia
View Article DOI: 10.1515/plm-2013-0055

Page 95 Laser interstitial thermal therapy for treatment of post-radiosurgery tumor recurrence and radiation necrosis
Toral R. Patel and Veronica L.S. Chiang
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Page 107 MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy of intracranial tumors and epilepsy: State-of-the-art review and a case study from pediatrics
Hoon Choi and Zulma Tovar-Spinoza
View Article DOI: 10.1515/plm-2014-0002

Original contributions

Page 117 Percutaneous selective laser amygdalo-hippocampectomy (SLAH) for treatment of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy within an interventional MRI suite
Sherif G. Nour, Jon T. Willie and Robert E. Gross
View Article DOI: 10.1515/plm-2014-0003

Page 129 Interstitial laser irradiation of cerebral gliomas – Neurobiological background, technique and typical results
Wernholt von Tempelhoff, Frank Ulrich and Hans-Joachim Schwarzmaier
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Page 143 Prognostic factors of overall survival after laser interstitial thermal therapy in patients with glioblastoma
Symeon Missios, Jason L. Schroeder, Gene H. Barnett and Alireza M. Mohammadi
View Article DOI: 10.1515/plm-2013-0051

Page 151 Laser interstitial thermal therapy as a novel treatment modality for brain tumors in the thalamus and basal ganglia
Jason L. Schroeder, Symeon Missios, Gene H. Barnett and Alireza M. Mohammadi
View Article DOI: 10.1515/plm-2013-0053

Preliminary research report

Page 159 Endoscopic fluorescence visualization of 5-ALA photosensitized central nervous system tumors in the neural tissue transparency spectral range
Maxim Loshchenov, Petr Zelenkov, Aleksandr Potapov, Sergey Goryajnov and Alexandr Borodkin
View Article DOI: 10.1515/plm-2013-0017

Congress announcements

Page 171 Second announcement: 21st Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lasermedizin (DGLM) e.V.
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Page 173 Congresses 2014 / 2015
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