Visceral and soft-tissue tumors: Radiofrequency and alcohol ablation for pain relief - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1067-1076

  Nair, Rashmi T ^a,c   VanSonnenberg, Eric ^a,b   Shankar, Sridhar ^a,d   Morrison, Paul R ^a   Gill, Ritu Randhawa ^a   Tuncali, Kemal ^a   Silverman, Stuart G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NEUROPATHY; HEMATOMA; HEMOBILIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MUSCLE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER PAIN; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51549117761     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2483061883     Document Type: Article

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