Vascular lesions in children: Percutaneous MR imaging-guided interstitial Nd:YAG laser therapy-preliminary experience

Radiology

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 789-794

  Wacker, Frank K ^a   Cholewa, Dietmar ^a   Roggan, Andre ^a   Schilling, Andreas ^a   Waldschmidt, Jürgen ^a   Wolf, Karl Jürgen ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angioma; Blood vessels, abnormalities; Interventional procedures, in infants and children; Lasers, interstitial therapy; Magnetic resonance (MR), guidance; Magnetic resonance (MR), temperature monitoring; Skin, diseases

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031750642     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.208.3.9722861     Document Type: Article

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