High-intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of solid tumours

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 321-327

  Kennedy, James E ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; LIQUID NITROGEN;

BREAST TUMOR; CRYOABLATION; CRYOTHERAPY; FREEZE THAWING; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; KIDNEY TUMOR; LASER; LASER INDUCED THERMOTHERAPY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SARCOMA; SOLID TUMOR; UTERUS MYOMA;

CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 16844382450     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1591     Document Type: Review

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