Saline-linked surface radiofrequency ablation: A safe and effective method of surface ablation of hepatic metastatic colorectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-102

  Gnerlich, Jennifer L ^a   Ritter, Jon H ^a   Linehan, David C ^a   Hawkins, William G ^a   Strasberg, Steven M ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Campus Box 8109 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER RESECTION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68249129021     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181ae91af     Document Type: Article

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