Complications after percutaneous saline-enhanced radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors: 3-Year experience with 336 patients at a single center

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 207-211

  Giorgio, Antonio ^a   Tarantino, Luciano ^a   De Stefano, Giorgio ^a   Coppola, Carmine ^a   Ferraioli, Giovanna ^a,b  

^a AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^b Department of Mental Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CANCER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS;

EID: 11144264686     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.1.01840207     Document Type: Article

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