Malignant liver tumors treated with MR imaging-guided laser-induced thermotherapy: Experience with complications in 899 patients (2,520 lesions)

Radiology

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 367-377

  Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Straub, Ralf ^a   Eichler, Katrin ^a   Woitaschek, Dirk ^a   Mack, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser, interstitial therapy; Liver neoplasms; Liver neoplasms, MR; Liver, interventional procedures; Magnetic resonance (MR), thermometry

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTIAM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CANCER; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOMETRY; THORACOCENTESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036829252     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2252011171     Document Type: Article

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