Do surgical clips interfere with radiofrequency thermal ablation?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1557-1560

  Boll, Daniel T ^a   Lewin, Jonathan S ^a   Duerk, Jeffrey L ^a   Merkle, Elmar M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SWINE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0037498193     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.180.6.1801557     Document Type: Article

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