Computed tomography-guided, resistance-based, percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of renal malignancies under conscious sedation at two years of follow-up

Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 983-987

  Arzola, Jorge ^a   Baughman, Steven M ^a   Hernandez, Javier ^b   Bishoff, Jay T ^a  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750991581     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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