90Yttrium microspheres for nonresectable liver cancer: The University of Connecticut Health Center experience

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 523-528

  Rowe, Bryan P ^a   Weiner, Ronald ^b   Foster, John ^c   Dowsett, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Jefferson Radiology Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; YTTRIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSPHERES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 35348906084     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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