McDermott MW, Sneed PK, Huang K, Ma L, Jensen RL, Paddick I, eds. Radiosurgery, Vol. 7. KAGER 2010, pages 422, 151 illustrations $292.00.

This seventh volume of Radiosurgery presents selected and edited papers presented at the 2007 Congress of the International Stereotactic Radiation Society held in San Francisco, California.  This Congress included presentations from all areas of radiosurgery and from all body sites, not just brain.

The volume is broken up into several sections, each dealing with one general area.  The initial section examines questions in the physics, imaging, and radiobiology of stereotactic treatment and consists of 11 papers.  The next section examines cranial radiosurgery of benign tumors with the predominance of the 9 papers examining treatment dealing with Schwannomas and acoustic neuromas.  A 5-paper section on cranial radiosurgery of malignant tumors follows with 60% of these dealing with metastatic disease.  The volume closes with smaller sections that deal with cranial radiosurgery for vascular malformations and for pain, a section on spinal radiosurgery and a section on body radiosurgery

The book is not an exhaustive presentation of the literature, and the papers were selected from those presented.  The data is old by now but still of interest, so those involved in stereotactic radiosurgery would probably be aware of its contents by this time.  The volume would certainly have had more appeal had it been published in a more timely fashion.