Radiofrequency heat ablation for lung tumors: Potential applications

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Chhajed, Prashant N ^a   Tamm, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUMOR; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 0345530095     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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