Quality initiatives strategies for anticipating and reducing complications and treatment failures in hepatic radiofrequency ablation

Radiographics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1107-1122

  Mendiratta Lala, Mishal ^a   Brook, Olga Rachel ^a   Midkiff, Brian D ^a   Brennan, Darren D ^a   Thornton, Eavan ^a   Faintuch, Salomao ^a   Sheiman, Robert Glenn ^a   Goldberg, S Nahum ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

CATHETER ABLATION; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77957715471     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.304095202     Document Type: Article

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