Feasibility of thermal ablation of lytic vertebral metastases with radiofrequency current

Cancer Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-29

  Wood, Bradford J ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINE METASTASIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; CATHETER ABLATION; DIATHERMY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

CATHETER ABLATION; DIATHERMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645873863     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130404-200201000-00004     Document Type: Note

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