Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy in Neurosurgery

Veronica L. Chiang Department of Neurosurgery Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT USA Shabbar F. Danish Department of Neurosurgery Rutgers-RWJ Medical School New Brunswick, NJ USA Robert E. Gross Department of Neurosurgery Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA USA

Magnetic Resonance-Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy: Historical Perspectives and Overview of the Principles of LITT.- Technical Considerations for LITT - Getting Through the Procedure.- Special Technical Considerations: LITT in The Awake Patient and The Pacemaker Patient.- Complications of LITT.- LITT for Metastatic In-Field Recurrence.- LITT Treatment of High-Grade Gliomas.- LITT for Pediatric Brain Tumors.- LITT in the Treatment of Adult Epilepsy.- LITT in Adult Functional Neurosurgery: Movement Disorders.- LITT for Intractable Psychiatric Disease.- LITT in Pediatric Epilepsy.- LITT for Spine Tumors.- Building a LITT Practice.

"The text does an excellent job of keeping the reader at the forefront of the field. The organization, discussion, and content of this text make the expert content by thought-leaders in the field easy to consume for both trainees and fully trained neurosurgeons alike. The editors and authors are to be commended for their excellent contribution to the literature." (Kimberly Bojanowski Hoang and Nicholas Au Yong, Operative Neurosurgery, Vol. 20 (4), 2021)