Does thermal ablation promote liver metastases progression more than resection?

Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 479-480

  Burdio, Fernando ^a   Navarro, Ana ^b   Güemes, Antonio ^b   Sousa, Ramon ^b   Tejero, Eloy ^b   Lozano, Ricardo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; LETTER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SURGERY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STEREOMETRY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL ABLATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEPATECTOMY; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33747598716     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.02.018     Document Type: Letter

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