Comparison of tissue pressure and ablation time between the LeVeen and cool-tip needle methods

Comparative Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nakamuta, Makoto ^a   Kohjima, Motoyuki ^a   Morizono, Shusuke ^a   Yoshimoto, Tsuyoshi ^a   Miyagi, Yuzuru ^a   Sakai, Hironori ^b   Enjoji, Munechika ^a   Kotoh, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SWINE; TIME; TISSUE PRESSURE;

EID: 33846697445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14765926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-5926-5-10     Document Type: Article

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