Laser-induced thermotherapy combined with hepatic arterial embolization in the treatment of liver tumors in a rat tumor model

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-62

  Germer, Christoph T ^a,b   Isbert, Christoph ^a   Albrecht, Dirk ^a   Roggan, André ^b   Pelz, Jörg ^a   Ritz, Jörg P ^a   Müller, Gerhard ^b   Buhr, Heinz J ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LASER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LASERS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 0033504088     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199907000-00009     Document Type: Article

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