Local Therapies for Glioma

Editors' remarks: Evolving concepts for local therapies for glioma.- Intraoperative imaging - MRI.- Stereotactic volumetric resection of gliomas.- Fluorescence-guided resections of malignant gliomas - an overview.- Postoperative imaging after brain tumor resection.- Preliminary experience in glioma surgery with intraoperative high-field MRI.- Awake craniotomy in glioma surgery.- External beam and conformal radiotherapy in the management of gliomas.- Interstitial stereotactic radiosurgery.- Implantable drug-releasing biodegradable microspheres for local treatment of brain glioma.- Non-invasive transcranial High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFUS) under MRI thermometry and guidance in the treatment of brain lesions.- Intracavitary chemotherapy for glioblastoma: present status and future directions.- Intralesional radioimmunotherapy in the treatment of malignant glioma: clinical and experimental findings.- Intracavitary treatment of malignant gliomas: radioimmunotherapy targeting fibronectin.- Comparing monoclonal antibodies and small peptidic hormones for local targeting of malignant gliomas.- Local convection enhanced delivery of IL4-Pseudomonas exotoxin (NBI-3001) for treatment of patients with recurrent malignant glioma.- Convection enhanced delivery of IL13-PE38QQR for treatment of recurrent malignant glioma: presentation of interim findings from ongoing phase 1 studies.- Oncolytic viruses for treatment of malignant brain tumours.- Gene therapy of gliomas.- Cell therapy using encapsulated cells producing endostatin.- Stem cells in neuro-oncology ¡ª development, regeneration and treatment.- Glioma invasion ¡ª Pattern of dissemination by mechanisms of invasion and surgical intervention, pattern of gene expression and its regulatory control by tumorsuppressor p53and proto-oncogene ETS-1.- Mechanisms of glioma cell invasion.- Invasion as limitation to anti-angiogenic glioma therapy.- Author Index.- Index of Keywords.