Advertisement
Review Article| Volume 34, ISSUE 2, P227-237, April 2023

Posterior Fossa Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy in Children

Published:January 30, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nec.2022.11.002

      Keywords

      To read this article in full you will need to make a payment

      Purchase one-time access:

      Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online access
      One-time access price info
      • For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
      • For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'

      Subscribers receive full online access to your subscription and archive of back issues up to and including 2002.

      Content published before 2002 is available via pay-per-view purchase only.

      Subscribe:

      Subscribe to Neurosurgery Clinics
      Already a print subscriber? Claim online access
      Already an online subscriber? Sign in
      Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect

      References

        • Sabahi M.
        • Bordes S.J.
        • Najera E.
        • et al.
        Laser interstitial thermal therapy for posterior fossa lesions: a systematic review and analysis of multi-institutional outcomes.
        Cancers (Basel). 2022; 14: 456
        • Lin C.T.
        • Riva-Cambrin J.K.
        Management of posterior fossa tumors and hydrocephalus in children: a review.
        Childs Nerv Syst. 2015; 31: 1781-1789
        • Picariello S.
        • Spennato P.
        • Roth J.
        • et al.
        Posterior fossa tumours in the first year of life: a two-centre retrospective study.
        Diagnostics (Basel). 2022; 12: 635
        • Onorini N.
        • Spennato P.
        • Orlando V.
        • et al.
        The clinical and prognostic impact of the choice of surgical approach to fourth ventricular tumors in a single-center, single-surgeon cohort of 92 consecutive pediatric patients.
        Front Oncol. 2022; 12: 821738
        • Candela-Cantó S.
        • Muchart J.
        • Ramírez-Camacho A.
        • et al.
        Robot-assisted, real-time, MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for pediatric patients with hypothalamic hamartoma: surgical technique, pitfalls, and initial results.
        J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2022; 29: 681-692
        • Hect J.L.
        • Alattar A.A.
        • Harford E.E.
        • et al.
        Stereotactic laser interstitial thermal therapy for the treatment of pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy: indications, techniques, and safety.
        Childs Nerv Syst. 2022; 38: 961-970
        • Bozinov O.
        • Yang Y.
        • Oertel M.
        • et al.
        Laser interstitial thermal therapy in gliomas.
        Cancer Lett. 2020; 474: 151-157
        • Riordan M.
        • Tovar-Spinoza Z.
        Laser induced thermal therapy (LITT) for pediatric brain tumors: case-based review.
        Transl Pediatr. 2014; 3: 229-235
        • Patel P.D.
        • Ashraf O.
        • Danish S.F.
        Magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for brainstem pathologies.
        World Neurosurg. 2022; 161: e80-e89
        • Traylor J.I.
        • Patel R.
        • Habib A.
        • et al.
        Laser interstitial thermal therapy to the posterior fossa: challenges and nuances.
        World Neurosurg. 2019; 132: e124-e132
        • Borghei-Razavi H.
        • Koech H.
        • Sharma M.
        • et al.
        Laser interstitial thermal therapy for posterior fossa lesions: an initial experience.
        World Neurosurg. 2018; 117: e146-e153
        • Ashraf O.
        • Arzumanov G.
        • Luther E.
        • et al.
        Magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for posterior fossa neoplasms.
        J Neurooncol. 2020; 149: 533-542
      1. Formisano M, Iuppariello L, Mirone G. et al. "3D Printed Anatomical Model for Surgical Planning: a Pediatric Hospital Experience," 2021 International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB), 2021, pp. 1-4

        • Saenz A.
        • Singh J.
        • Gan H.W.
        • et al.
        A novel technique for frame-based MR-guided laser ablation in an infant.
        Childs Nerv Syst. 2022; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-022-05616-2
        • Gupta N.
        A modification of the Mayfield horseshoe headrest allowing pin fixation and cranial immobilization in infants and young children.
        Neurosurgery. 2006; 58 ([discussion: ONS-E181]): ONS-E181
        • Lee M.
        • Rezai A.R.
        • Chou J.
        Depressed skull fractures in children secondary to skull clamp fixation devices.
        Pediatr Neurosurg. 1994; 21: 174-177
        • Lee J.J.
        • Clarke D.
        • Hoverson E.
        • et al.
        MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy using the Visualase system and Navigus frameless stereotaxy in an infant: technical case report.
        J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2021; : 1-4
        • Dadey D.Y.
        • Kamath A.A.
        • Smyth M.D.
        • et al.
        Utilizing personalized stereotactic frames for laser interstitial thermal ablation of posterior fossa and mesiotemporal brain lesions: a single-institution series.
        Neurosurg Focus. 2016; 41: E4
        • Tovar-Spinoza Z.
        • Choi H.
        Magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy: report of a series of pediatric brain tumors.
        J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2016; 17: 723-733
        • Willie J.T.
        • Malcolm J.G.
        • Stern M.A.
        • et al.
        Safety and effectiveness of stereotactic laser ablation for epileptogenic cerebral cavernous malformations.
        Epilepsia. 2019; 60: 220-232
        • Malcolm J.G.
        • Douglas J.M.
        • Greven A.
        • et al.
        Feasibility and morbidity of magnetic resonance imaging-guided stereotactic laser ablation of deep cerebral cavernous malformations: a report of 4 cases.
        Neurosurgery. 2021; 89: 635-644
        • Lawrence J.D.
        • Rehman A.
        • Lee M.
        Treatment of a pontine cavernoma with laser interstitial thermal therapy: case report.
        J Neurol Surg B Skull Base. 2021; 82: P177
        • Gamboa N.T.
        • Karsy M.
        • Iyer R.R.
        • et al.
        Stereotactic laser interstitial thermal therapy for brainstem cavernous malformations: two preliminary cases.
        Acta Neurochir. 2020; 162: 1771-1775
        • Yousefi O.
        • Sabahi M.
        • Malcolm J.
        • et al.
        Laser interstitial thermal therapy for cavernous malformations: a systematic review.
        Front Surg. 2022; 9: 887329