Cryoablation of unresectable malignant liver tumors

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-31

  Shafir, Michail ^a,b   Shapiro, Robert ^a   Sung, Max ^a   Warner, Richard ^a   Sicular, Arthur ^a   Klipfel, Adam ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dept of Surg and Neoplastic Dis ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0030058355     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(99)80068-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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