High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation: A new strategy to manage primary bone tumors

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 494-500

  Chen, Wenzhi ^a   Zhou, Kun ^a  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone tumor; High intensity focused ultrasound; Osteosarcoma; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BONE TUMOR; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMB SALVAGE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

EID: 27944448386     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bco.0000183682.00083.a1     Document Type: Review

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