Feasibility of ablation as an alternative to surgical metastasectomy in patients with unresectable sarcoma pulmonary metastases

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1051-1053

  Ding, Jesslyn H ^a   Chua, Terence C ^a   Glenn, Derek ^b   Morris, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leiomyosarcoma; Pulmonary metastases; Radiofrequency ablation; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73249129535     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.218743     Document Type: Article

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