Prospective Study of a 'Popping' Sound during Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-244

  Fernandes, Mark Lee ^a,b   Lin, Chen Chun ^a   Lin, Chun Jung ^a   Chen, Wei Ting ^a   Lin, Shi Ming ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COOLING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY CANCER; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORAX DRAINAGE; TOUCH; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VIBRATION SENSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NOISE; PRESSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIBRATION;

EID: 74449091326     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.10.015     Document Type: Article

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