Effect of laser-induced thermotherapy on liver metastases

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 769-774

  Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Mack, Martin ^a   Eichler, Katrin ^a   Lehnert, Thomas ^a   Nabil, Mohamed ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser; LITT; Liver; Metastases; Thermotherapy

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; IRINOTECAN; OXALIPLATIN;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER COAGULATION; LASER INDUCED INTERSTITIAL THERMOTHERAPY; LASER SURGERY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745178496     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.6.5.769     Document Type: Review

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