Closed argon-based cryoablation of bone tumours

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 714-718

  Bickels, J ^a   Kollender, Y ^a   Merimsky, O ^a   Isaakov, J ^a   Petyan Brand, R ^a   Meller, I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; GELFOAM; METAL;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BONE REMODELING; BONE TUMOR; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; CURETTAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FREEZING; GAS; GEL; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NECROSIS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TUMOR RECURRENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGON; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 4043086269     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.86B5.14416     Document Type: Article

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