Microwave ablation of liver metastases guided by contrast-enhanced ultrasound: Experience with 125metastases in 39 patients

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 492-496

  Lorentzen, T ^a   Skjoldbye, B O ^a   Nolsoe, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

abdomen; ablation procedures; interventional procedures; metastases; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 80054014831     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: 14388782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1246002     Document Type: Article

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