Comparative study of the effects of percutaneous ethanol injection and radiofrequency ablation in cases treated with a straight or expandable electrode

Oncology Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1275-1279

  Kurokohchi, Kazutaka ^a   Deguchi, Akihiro ^a   Masaki, Tsutomu ^a   Yoneyama, Hirohito ^a   Himoto, Takashi ^a   Miyoshi, Hisaaki ^a   Mohammad, Hamdy Saad ^a   Taminato, Tomohiko ^a   Kuriyama, Shigeki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expandable electrode; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Percutaneous ethanol inejection therapy; Radiofrequency ablation; Straight electrode

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38449094027     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.18.5.1275     Document Type: Article

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