Image-guided radiofrequency ablation of spinal tumors: Preliminary experience with an expandable array electrode

Cancer Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-39

  Grönemeyer, Dietrich H W ^a,b   Schirp, Sven ^a   Gevargez, Athour ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Research and Development Centre for Microtherapy (EFMT)   (Germany)

^c Institute for MicroTherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Radiofrequency; RFA; Spine; Tumor therapy

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; ELECTRODE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMAGING; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SACRUM; SAFETY; SEDATION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL INJURY; THORACIC SPINE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CATHETER ABLATION; DIATHERMY; INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; DIATHERMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036372616     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130404-200201000-00007     Document Type: Article

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