Radiofrequency Ablation of Lung Tumors: Feasibility and Safety

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1023-1028

  Zhu, Jacqui C ^a   Yan, Tristan D ^a   Glenn, Derek ^a   Morris, David L ^a  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRODE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURAL PAIN; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62649147459     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.017     Document Type: Article

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