Stereotactic radiofrequency ablation (SRFA) of liver lesions: Technique effectiveness, safety, and interoperator performance

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 570-580

  Widmann, Gerlig ^a   Schullian, Peter ^a   Haidu, Marion ^a   Bale, Reto ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ablation; Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); Image fusion; Liver tumor; Liver hepatic; Navigation; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; CATHETER ABLATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IODIXANOL; IODOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84864325559     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-011-0200-4     Document Type: Article

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