Image-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of unresectable hepatic tumors using a triple-spiral-shaped electrode needle: Initial experience in 34 patients

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-112

  Thanos, Loukas ^a,b   Poulou, Loukia S ^a   Ziakas, Panayiotis D ^c   Kelekis, Alexis D ^b   Pomoni, Maria ^b   Kelekis, Dimitrios A ^b  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hepatic lesions; Percutaneous; Radiofrequency ablation; Triple spiral electrode

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEEDLE; POSTABLATION SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REOPERATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77949261603     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-009-9649-9     Document Type: Article

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