Injectable liquid alkali alloy based-tumor thermal ablation therapy

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-35

  Rao, Wei ^a   Liu, Jing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Alkali metal; Injectable liquid alloy; Minimally invasive therapy; Thermal ablation; Tumor hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METAL; SODIUM POTASSIUM ALLOY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIQUID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TISSUE NECROSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ALLOYS; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; METALS, ALKALI; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 61349105386     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13645700802384023     Document Type: Article

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