Image-guided multipolar radiofrequency ablation of liver tumours: Initial clinical results

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2253-2261

  Terraz, Sylvain ^a   Constantin, Christophe ^a   Majno, Pietro Edoardo ^a   Spahr, Laurent ^a   Mentha, Gilles ^a   Becker, Christoph D ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver; Metastasis; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548064624     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0626-x     Document Type: Article

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