Treatment of Small Hepatocellular Carcinomas with US-Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1222-1229

  Fukuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Ito, Ryu ^a   Ohto, Masao ^a   Sakamoto, Akio ^a   Karasawa, Eii ^b   Yamaguchi, Taketo ^c   Shinozuka, Norihiro ^d   Zhu, Hui ^e   Wanga, Zhi Biao ^e  

^a International HIFU Center   (Japan)

^b International University of Health and Welfare   (Japan)

^c CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; High intensity focused ultrasound; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; AFTER-TREATMENT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BASELINE VALUES; C-REACTIVE PROTEINS; CHONGQING; CHONGQING , CHINA; HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LIVER CANCERS; NONINVASIVE METHODS; RENAL DYSFUNCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES; ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE;

AMINO ACIDS; BODY FLUIDS; COAGULATION; DISEASES; ETHANOL; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE;

ULTRASONICS;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA AMYLASE PANCREAS ISOENZYME; ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; TRYPSIN;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; EDEMA; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RIB RESECTION; SAFETY; SONICATION TIME; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE EDEMA; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BLEEDING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; IRON; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXIDES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79959841765     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

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