Radiofrequency Ablation for the Treatment of Pulmonary Metastases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1030-1039

  Pennathur, Arjun ^a   Abbas, Ghulam ^a   Qureshi, Irfan ^a   Schuchert, Matthew J ^a   Wang, Yun ^b   Gilbert, Sebastien ^a   Landreneau, Rodney J ^a   Luketich, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERATOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY SARCOMA; LUNG LESION; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; NEEDLE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62949156360     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.061     Document Type: Article

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