Irrigation of the bile ducts with chilled saline during percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of a hepatic ocular melanoma metastasis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 596-598

  Lieberman, Sivan ^a   Goldin, Eran ^a   Lotem, Michal ^a   Bloom, Allan I ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CHOLANGITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAVAGE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MELANOMA; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344648650     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.3.1830596     Document Type: Article

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