Ablation of Liver Metastasis: Is Preoperative Imaging Sufficiently Accurate?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 98-107

  Wallace, James R ^a   Christians, Kathleen K ^a   Quiroz, Francisco A ^a   Foley, William D ^a   Pitt, Henry A ^a   Quebbeman, Edward J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryotherapy; Intraoperative ultrasound; Liver imaging; Liver neoplasm; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOSURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STANDARD; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CRYOSURGERY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035221738     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(01)80019-6     Document Type: Article

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