Freeze or fry - Cryoablation or radiofrequency ablation in liver surgery?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 472-473

  de Jong, Koert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; LIQUID NITROGEN;

BLEEDING; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CRYOABLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; RETREATMENT; REVIEW; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 34548506533     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0905     Document Type: Review

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