The current role of minimally invasive therapies in the management of liver tumors

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 635-647

  Rempp, Hansjörg ^a   Boss, Andreas ^b   Helmberger, Thomas ^c   Pereira, Philippe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

^d SLK Kliniken Heilbronn   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablative therapies; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Highly focused ultrasound; Irreversible electroporation; Liver metastasis; Microwave ablation; MR functional imaging; MR thermometry; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PREVENTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPORATION; FOLLOW UP; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MICROWAVE THERAPY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR SEEDING; TUMOR VOLUME;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MICROWAVES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 83055179739     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-011-9749-2     Document Type: Review

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