Safety limit of large-volume hepatic radiofrequency ablation in a rat model

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 252-258

  Ng, Kelvin K ^a   Lam, Chi Ming ^a   Poon, Ronnie T ^a   Shek, Tony W ^a   Ho, David W ^a   Fan, Sheung Tat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER WEIGHT; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; PLATELET COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WHOLE BLOOD COAGULATION TIME;

EID: 33645102297     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.3.252     Document Type: Article

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