High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in patients with solid malignancies: Evaluation of feasibility, local tumour response and clinical results;Ultrasuoni focalizzati ad elevata intensità (HIFU) in pazienti con tumori solidi. Valutazione della fattibilità, della risposta locale e dei risultati clinici

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 734-748

  Orgera, G ^a   Monfardini, L ^a   Della Vigna, P ^a   Zhang, L ^b   Bonomo, G ^a   Arnone, P ^a   Padrenostro, M ^c   Orsi, F ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ablation; High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Solid tumours

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79961207642     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-011-0634-4     Document Type: Article

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