In the age of the World Wide Web, informed patients continue to surprise oncologists with detailed questions about popular tumor therapies. Although minimally invasive tumor therapies (MITT) have become daily clinical practice for palliative treatment of liver tumors, the acceptance of these palliative modalities still varies enormously. In addition, promising results have been published for in situ ablation of lung metastases, bone tumors, and renal cell carcinoma. This book gives an up-to-date overview of the popular techniques and clinical results of MITT, with a clarification of the actual indications including the size, tumor entities, and clinical benefits. Moreover, the book focuses on the prospects and limitations of imaging methods - ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging - used for MITT.

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Image Guidance of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies.- Use of Imaging Modalities for the Guidance of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies (MITT).- Development of Navigation Systems for Image-Guided Laparoscopic Tumor Resections in Liver Surgery.- Methods of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies.- Radiofrequency Ablation: The Percutaneous Approach.- The Surgical Approach for Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumors.- Laser-Induced Thermotherapy.- Clinical Results of Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies.- Liver Metastases.- Percutaneous Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Lung Tumors.- Renal Tumors.- Thermal Ablation in Bone Tumors.