A comparison of US-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of medium-sized hepatocellular carcinoma with a cluster electrode or a single electrode with a multiple overlapping ablation technique

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 771-779

  Park, Min Jung ^a   Kim, Young Sun ^a   Rhim, Hyunchul ^a   Lim, Hyo Keun ^a   Lee, Min Woo ^a   Choi, Dongil ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOBILIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS CLUSTER ELECTRODE RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS SINGLE ELECTRODE RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79957563074     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: 15357732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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