EUS-guided radiofrequency ablation with a prototype electrode array system in an animal model (with video)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 372-376

  Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a   Jhala, Nirag C ^a   Drelichman, Ernesto R ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPLICATION SITE NECROSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BIOSAFETY; ELECTRODE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; VASCULARIZATION; VITAL SIGN;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRODES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LIVER; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEEDLES; SWINE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 67651111814     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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