Brachial Nerve Injury Caused by Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation of Apical Lung Cancer: A Report of Four Cases

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1129-1133

  Hiraki, Takao ^a   Gobara, Hideo ^a   Mimura, Hidefumi ^a   Sano, Yoshifumi ^a   Toyooka, Shinichi ^a   Shibamoto, Kentaro ^a   Kishi, Ryotaro ^a   Uka, Mayu ^a   Kanazawa, Susumu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR ABLATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77953873771     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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