Early clinical experience with pre-operative MR-guided laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT) of liver metastases;Erste klinische Erfahrungen zur MR-gesteuerten laserinduzierten Thermotherapie (LITT) von Lebermetastasen im präoperativen Einsatz

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Volumn 164, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 413-421

  Vogl, Th J ^a   Weinhold, N ^a   Muller P ^a   Phillip, C ^b   Roggan, A ^b   Mack, M G ^a   Balzer, J O ^a   Eichstadt H ^a   Blumhardt, G ^a   Lobeck, H ^a   Felix, R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Laser und Medizin Technologie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lasers, interstitial thermotherapy; Liver neoplasms, metastases; Liver neoplasms, therapy; Liver, interventional procedure; Magnetic resonance (MR), thermometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER RESECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LASERS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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