Ultrasound-guided radiofrequency-assisted segmental liver resection: A new technique

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-233

  Curro, Giuseppe ^a   Bartolotta, Marcello ^a   Barbera, Adalberto ^a   Jiao, Long ^b   Habib, Nagy ^b   Navarra, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomic resection; Intraoperative ultrasonography; Liver resection; Liver tumors; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949116526     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b0c38a     Document Type: Article

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