Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy: Lighting the Way to a New Treatment Option in Neurosurgery.

Neurosurgery

*Department of Neurological Surgery, The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; ‡Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Published: December 2016

LITT, laser interstitial therapyNd:YAG, neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum.

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