Effective hepatic cryoablation: Does it enhance tumor dissemination?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 306-310

  El Shakhs, Soliman A ^a   Shimi, Sami A ^a   Cuschieri, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOSURGERY; FREEZING; LIVER SURGERY; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PREVALENCE; RAT; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CRYOSURGERY; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TEMPERATURE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032999424     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013192     Document Type: Article

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