Percutaneous laser ablation in patients with isolated unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer: Results of a phase II study

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-83

  Pacella, Claudio M ^a   Valle, Dario ^a   Bizzarri, Giancarlo ^a   Pacella, Sara ^a   Brunetti, Maurizio ^a   Maritati, Raffaele ^a   Osborn, John ^b   Stasi, Roberto ^a  

^a REGINA APOSTOLORUM HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINATE CALCIUM; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LASERS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32244441115     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860500438029     Document Type: Article

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