High-intensity focused ultrasound combined with transarterial chemoembolization for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: Long-term follow-up and clinical analysis

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 662-669

  Jin, Chengbing ^a   Zhu, Hui ^a   Wang, Zhibiao ^a   Wu, Feng ^a   Chen, Wenzhi ^a   Li, Kequan ^a   Su, Haibing ^a   Zhou, Kun ^a   Gong, Wenting ^a  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical analysis; Hepatocellular carcinoma; High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU); Survival; Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; INFECTION; INOPERABLE CANCER; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RIB FRACTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMOSTATICS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 80755172582     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.08.042     Document Type: Article

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