Multipolar radiofrequency ablation of hepatic tumors: Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1056-1062

  Frericks, Bernd B ^a   Ritz, Jörg P ^a   Roggan, Andre ^b   Wolf, Karl Jügen ^a   Albrecht, Thomas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Celon AG Medical Instruments   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; IOPROMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SONOVUE; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ABDOMINAL WALL NECROSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMED CONSENT; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CANCER; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27744566348     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2373041104     Document Type: Article

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