Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors: A new cause of benign portal venous gas

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 709-717

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

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS TRANSPORT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJECTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN PNEUMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; VEIN DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27144549563     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2372041295     Document Type: Article

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