High-intensity focused ultrasound: Current potential and oncologic applications

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 191-199

  Dubinsky, Theodore J ^a   Cuevas, Carlos ^a   Dighe, Manjiri K ^a   Kolokythas, Orpheus ^a   Joo, Ha Hwang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Coagulation necrosis; Hemostasis; High intensity focused ultrasound; Tumor ablation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER TUMOR; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REVIEW; SOUND INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASOUND, HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED, TRANSRECTAL;

EID: 37549000196     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2671     Document Type: Review

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