Modified technique for determining therapeutic response to radiofrequency ablation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma using US-volume system

Oncology Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 493-497

  Hiraoka, Atsushi ^a   Hirooka, Masashi ^b   Koizumi, Yohei ^a   Hidaka, Satoshi ^a   Uehara, Takahide ^a   Ichikawa, Soichi ^a   Hasebe, Aki ^a   Miyamoto, Yasunao ^a   Ninomiya, Tomoyuki ^a   Michitaka, Kojiro ^a   Horiike, Norio ^b   Yamashita, Yoshimasa ^b   Hiasa, Yoichi ^b   Matsuura, Bunzo ^b   Onji, Morikazu ^b  

^a EHIME PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Multiplanar reconstruction; Radiofrequency ablation; Ultrasonographic volume

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 76649110606     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or-00000660     Document Type: Article

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