Percutaneous cryoablation of small hepatocellular carcinoma with US guidance and CT monitoring: Initial experience

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 587-594

  Orlacchio, Antonio ^a   Bazzocchi, Gabriele ^a   Pastorelli, Daniela ^a   Bolacchi, Francesca ^a   Angelico, Mario ^a   Almerighi, Cristiana ^a   Masala, Salvatore ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryoablation; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Interventional procedures; Liver

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOABLATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 43249114842     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-008-9293-9     Document Type: Article

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