Radiofrequency ablation of porcine liver in vivo: Effects of blood flow and treatment time on lesion size

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 559-565

  Patterson, Emma J ^a   Scudamore, Charles H ^a   Owen, David A ^a   Nagy, Alex G ^a   Buczkowski, Andrzej K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; LIVER; NECROSIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031879365     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199804000-00018     Document Type: Article

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