Percutaneous saline-enhanced radiofrequency ablation of unresectable hepatic tumors: Initial experience in 26 patients

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1537-1545

  Kettenbach, Joachim ^a   Köstler, Wolfgang ^a   Rücklinger, Ernst ^b   Gustorff, Burkhard ^a   Hüpfl, Michael ^a   Wolf, Florian ^a   Peer, Katarina ^a   Weigner, Martina ^c   Lammer, Johannes ^a   Muller W ^d   Goldberg, S Nahum ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Stat Anal Methodical Consult KEG   (Austria)

^c WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^d FURTWANGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULATION NECROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEATH; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INOPERABLE CANCER; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; SEDATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0038173449     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.180.6.1801537     Document Type: Article

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