Combined radiofrequency and alcohol injection for percutaneous hepatic tumor ablation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1425-1429

  Shankar, Sridhar ^a,b   VanSonnenberg, Eric ^b   Morrison, Paul R ^b   Tuncali, Kemal ^b   Silverman, Stuart G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; INJECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TISSUE NECROSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 16544380384     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.5.1831425     Document Type: Article

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