Cryotherapy for Liver Tumors: Current Status, Perspectives, Clinical Results, and Review of Literature

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-163

  Seifert, J K ^a   Junginger, T ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorectal carcinoma; Cryosurgery; Cryotherapy; Hepatoma; Liver metastases

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CRYOTHERAPY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 2142758689     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460400300208     Document Type: Review

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