Analysis of patients with tumor seeding after percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 851-855

  Kazue, Shiozawa ^a   Manabu, Watanabe ^a   Noritaka, Wakui ^a   Takashi, Ikehara ^a   Kazunari, Iida ^a   Yasukiyo, Sumino ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Radiofrequency ablation; Seeding; Tumor biopsy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; NECROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR SEEDING; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 69249088933     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr-00000040     Document Type: Article

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