Ex vivo experiment on radiofrequency liver ablation with saline infusion through a screw-tip cannulated electrode

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-24

  Miao, Yi ^a   Ni, Yicheng ^a   Mulier, Stefaan ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Hoey, Michael F ^b   Mulier, Peter ^c   Penninckx, Freddy ^a   Yu, Jie ^a   De Scheerder, Ivan ^a   Baert, Alber L ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; LIVER TUMOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE;

EID: 0031571146     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsre.1997.5133     Document Type: Article

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