Haemostatic radiofrequency ablation assisted partial nephrectomy: Is radiofrequency energy a viable solution?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-81

  Salagierski, Marek ^a,b   Salagierski, Maciej ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Kidney cancer; Partial nephrectomy; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; ONCOCYTOMA; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CATHETER ABLATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRONS; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 47949116106     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000137645     Document Type: Article

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