Current status of local ablative techniques in the treatment of pancreatic cancer [1]

Pancreas

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 198-199

  Date, Ravindra Sudhachandra ^a  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SOMATOSTATIN;

BLEEDING; CRYOTHERAPY; DUODENUM STENOSIS; ELECTROSURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDLINE; MESH HEADING; MICROWAVE THERAPY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; REVIEW LITERATURE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746838090     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mpa.0000229006.39667.ea     Document Type: Letter

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