Over a decade treating hepatocellular carcinoma percutaneously with radiofrequency thermal ablation. Worldwide experience

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-304

  Thanos, Loukas ^a   Mylona, Sofia ^a   Ptohis, Nikolaos ^b   Sotiropoulou, Eva ^a   Pomoni, Anastasia ^b   Pomoni, Maria ^b  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Eugenidion Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clinical results; Complications; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Indications; Radiofrequency ablation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILOMA; BURN; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARESIS; PERITONITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STENT; STOMACH ULCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL INJURY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 38949147054     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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