Image-guided Laser Ablation
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the technical basis of laser ablation, describing and reporting in detail on the latest findings. The world of medicine is currently working to reduce the invasiveness of treatment, in order to improve patients’ q
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Image-guided Laser Ablation
Claudio Maurizio Pacella Tian’an Jiang • Giovanni Mauri Editors
Image-guided Laser Ablation
Editors Claudio Maurizio Pacella Department of Interventional Radiology Ospedale Regina Apostolorum Albano Laziale Rome Italy
Tian’an Jiang Department of Ultrasound Zhejiang University Hangzhou China
Giovanni Mauri Division of Interventional Radiology European Institute of Oncology IRCCS Milan Italy
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Foreword
My initial introduction to Claudio Pacella and his team was in 2005 when I visited his hospital near Rome to get a better understanding of the work that he was doing. As an associate editor of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR), I had the pleasure of reviewing and commenting on his hepatic ablation article in the journal and was so impressed by his results in treating liver lesions that I booked a trip to Italy that year. Claudio’s team of physicians are incredibly talented and devoted, most importantly to patient care but also to the highly technical future of laser medical therapy, which remains a largely unrecognized alternative for the obliteration of various tumors at low risk and high success. I was able to experience several ablation procedures and, afterward, sat among Claudio’s team, listening to their stories and dreams. Amazingly, they asked me to discuss my experience with laser therapies, which I did (totally unrehearsed). It was a fulfilling afternoon of observing and engaging with an incredible team of clinicians. After leaving Italy,
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