Clinical usefulness of determining the rate of thermal clearance within heated tumors

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 428-437

  Masunaga, Shin Ichiro ^a   Ono, Koji ^a   Mitsumori, Michihide ^a   Nishimura, Yasumasa ^a   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a   Akuta, Keizo ^b   Nagata, Yasushi ^a   Abe, Mitsuyuki ^c   Takahashi, Masaji ^a   Jo, Shiken ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OTSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; CT number; Hyperthermia; Thermal clearance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATOFIBROMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PELVIS TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030330495     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jjco.a023260     Document Type: Article

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