Tumour ablation: Technical aspects

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue SPEC. ISS. A, 2009, Pages

  Widmann, Gerlig ^a   Bodner, Gerd ^a   Bale, Reto ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Planning; Radiofrequency ablation; Technique

Indexed keywords

CARCINOMA; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW;

CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77649200832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2009.9026     Document Type: Article

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