Image-guided focused ultrasound ablation of breast cancer: Current status, challenges, and future directions

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1431-1441

  Schmitz, A C ^a   Gianfelice, D ^b   Daniel, B L ^c   Mali, W P Th M ^a   Van den Bosch, M A A J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Focussed ultrasound; Image guided therapy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tumour ablation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; TAMOXIFEN CITRATE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; BURN; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBROADENOMA; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; GOLD STANDARD; GUIDED IMAGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MASTECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 45849096087     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-0906-0     Document Type: Article

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