Thinking Outside the Abdominal Box: Safe Use of the Epipericardial Fat Pad Window for Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatic Dome Tumors

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-136

  Brennan, Darren Daniel ^a   Ganguli, Suruvanu ^a   Brecher, Chad W ^a   Goldberg, S Nahum ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THINKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549042815     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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