Adverse events after radiofrequency ablation of unresectable liver tumors: a single-center experience

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-82

  Lao, Oliver B ^a   Farjah, Farhood ^a   Flum, David R ^a   Yeung, Raymond S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Hepatic; Liver; Outcomes; Safety; Thermal ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649595230     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.09.025     Document Type: Article

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