Radiofrequency and microwave tumor ablation in patients with implanted cardiac devices: Is it safe?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 343-346

  Skonieczki, Brendan D ^a   Wells, Catherine ^b   Wasser, Elliot J ^a   Dupuy, Damian E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Cardiac devices; Microwave; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BONE METASTASIS; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MICROWAVE THERAPY; MICROWAVE TUMOR ABLATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; NEOPLASMS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052273767     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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