MR imaging-guided cryoablation of metastatic brain tumours: Initial experience in six patients

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 404-409

  Li, Chengli ^a   Wu, Lebin ^a   Song, Jiqing ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Lv, Yubo ^a   Sequeiros, Roberto Blanco ^a,b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brain; Cryoablation; Interventional MR; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN METASTASIS; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRYOABLATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR REGRESSION; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CRYOSURGERY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951230890     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1554-8     Document Type: Article

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