Liver tissue dissection: Ultrasonic or RFA energy?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2210-2216

  Felekouras, Evangelos ^a   Prassas, Evangelos ^a,b   Kontos, Michael ^a   Papaconstantinou, Ioannis ^a   Pikoulis, Emmanouil ^a   Giannopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Tsigris, Christos ^a   Tzivras, Michael ^a   Bakogiannis, Chris ^a   Safioleas, Michael ^a   Papalambros, Efstathios ^a   Bastounis, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 33845359096     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0468-0     Document Type: Article

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