Laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation of unresectable liver malignancies: Feasibility and clinical outcome

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-15

  Topal, Baki ^a   Aerts, Raymond ^a   Penninckx, Freddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic; Radiofrequency ablation; Unresectable liver malignancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037297132     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129689-200302000-00003     Document Type: Article

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