Microwave power and duration without extrauterine thermal damage in microwave endomyometrial ablation at 2.45 GHz

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 359-367

  Kanaoka, Yasushi ^a   Hirai, Kouzo ^a   Ishiko, Osamu ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenomyosis; Microwave endometrial ablation; Microwave endomyometrial ablation; Myoma uteri; Temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADENOMYOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENORRHAGIA; MICROWAVE ENDOMETRIAL ABLATION; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MICROWAVE THERAPY; MYOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SWINE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TISSUE NECROSIS; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; MICROWAVES; SWINE; UTERINE DISEASES;

EID: 27744550394     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2005.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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