Complications of image-guided radiofrequency ablation of renal cell carcinoma: Causes, imaging features and prevention methods

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2180-2190

  Park, Byung Kwan ^a   Kim, Chan Kyo ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Complication; Radiofrequency ablation; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATORY TRACT MASS; INTESTINE INJURY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY INFARCTION; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; URETER INJURY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 68449096759     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1399-1     Document Type: Review

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