Radiofrequency ablation assisted by real-time virtual sonography and ct for hepatocellular carcinoma undetectable by conventional sonography

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-69

  Nakai, Motoki ^a   Sato, Morio ^a   Sahara, Shinya ^a   Takasaka, Isao ^a   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^a   Minamiguchi, Hiroki ^a   Tanihata, Hirohiko ^a   Kimura, Masashi ^a   Takeuchi, Nozomu ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hidaka General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT during arterial portography; CT hepatic arteriography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; MRI; Radiofrequency ablation; Real time virtual sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 59849126099     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-008-9462-x     Document Type: Article

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