Hepatocellular cancer response to radiofrequency tumor ablation: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 501-511

  Bartolotta, Tommaso Vincenzo ^a   Taibbi, Adele ^a   Midiri, Massimo ^a   De Maria, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver, percutaneous ablation therapy; Liver, sonography; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; SONOVUE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 48249107476     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-007-9294-1     Document Type: Article

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