Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Cancer

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-46

  Lencioni, Riccardo ^a   Crocetti, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

hepatic metastasis; hepatocellular carcinoma; interventional procedure; liver; liver neoplasms; radiofrequency ablation; therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 35548984978     PISSN: 10892516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.tvir.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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