Irreversible electroporation: A novel image-guided cancer therapy

Gut and Liver

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Edward W ^a   Thai, Susan ^a   Kee, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Irreversible electroporation; Tumor treatment

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOABLATION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE THERAPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

EID: 77957603782     PISSN: 19762283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5009/gnl.2010.4.S1.S99     Document Type: Review

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