High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation: Effective and safe therapy for solid tumors in difficult locations

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Orsi, Franco ^a   Zhang, Lian ^b   Arnone, Paolo ^a   Orgera, Gianluigi ^a   Bonomo, Guido ^a   Della Vigna, Paolo ^a   Monfardini, Lorenzo ^a   Zhou, Kun ^b   Chen, Wenzhi ^b   Wang, Zhibiao ^b   Veronesi, Umberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Difficult locations; High intensity focused ultrasound; Solid tumors

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER; HEART; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS INJURY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; STOMACH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; DISEASE COURSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 77956792595     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3321     Document Type: Article

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