Radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma: Can subcapsular tumors be safely ablated?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1029-1034

  Young, Jun Kim ^a,b   Raman, Steven S ^a   Yu, Nam C ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a   Tong, Myron ^a   Lu, David S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Interventional radiology; Liver; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE COURSE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42449126563     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2293     Document Type: Article

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