Feasibility of magnetic resonance imaging-guided high intensity focused ultrasound therapy for ablating uterine fibroids in patients with bowel lies anterior to uterus

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 396-403

  Zhang, Lian ^a   Chen, Wen Zhi ^a   Liu, Yin Jiang ^b   Hu, Xiao ^b   Zhou, Kun ^a   Chen, Li ^b   Peng, Song ^a   Zhu, Hui ^a   Zou, Hui Ling ^b   Bai, Jin ^a   Wang, Zhi Biao ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center of Ultrasound Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); MR imaging guided high intensity focused ultrasound (MRgHIFU); Uterine myomas fibroids leiomyomas

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; CHONGQING; CONTRAST-ENHANCED MR; DEGASSED WATER; FENTANYLS; FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; GERMANY; GUIDANCE AND CONTROL; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; MEAN AGES; MIDAZOLAM; MR IMAGING; SIEMENS; SKIN BURN; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; THERAPEUTIC SYSTEMS; THERMAL ABLATION; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT TIME; TREATMENT VOLUMES; UTERINE FIBROIDS; UTERINE MYOMAS/FIBROIDS/LEIOMYOMAS;

ABLATION; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANESTHETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

FENTANYL; GADODIAMIDE; MEPROBAMATE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; INTESTINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN REDNESS; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 76349100267     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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