Completeness of treatment in hepatocellular carcinomas treated with image-guided tumor therapies: Evaluation of positive predictive value of contrast-enhanced CT with histopathologic correlation in the explanted liver specimen

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 578-582

  Kim, Young Sun ^a   Rhim, Hyunchul ^a,b   Lim, Hyo K ^a   Park, Cheol Keun ^b   Lee, Won Jae ^a   Do, Young Soo ^a   Cho, Jae Won ^b  

^a Center for Imaging Science   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chemotherapeutic embolization; CT; Hepatic arteries; Liver neoplasms; RF ablation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; EMBOLIZATION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ABLATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33746257064     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200607000-00005     Document Type: Article

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