Radiofrequency ablation versus percutaneous microwave coagulation therapy for small hepatocellular carcinomas: A retrospective comparative study

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 54, Issue 76, 2007, Pages 985-989

  Ohmoto, Kenji ^a   Yoshioka, Naoko ^a   Tomiyama, Yasuyuki ^a   Shibata, Norikuni ^a   Kawase, Tomoya ^a   Yoshida, Koji ^a   Kuboki, Makoto ^a   Yamamoto, Shinichiro ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complications; Small liver cancer; Therapeutic effects; Thermal ablation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAT SENSATION; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFARCTION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PAIN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347355592     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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