Radio-frequency ablation (RFA) for post-chemotherapeutic metastatic germ cell tumors as minimally invasive salvage therapy

Japanese Journal of Cancer and Chemotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2117-2120

  Fujiwara, Jun ^a   Nakamura, Terukazu ^a   Shiraishi, Takumi ^a   Mikami, Kazuya ^a   Takaha, Natsuki ^a   Ukimura, Osamu ^a   Kawauchi, Akihiro ^a   Miki, Tsuneharu ^a   Yamagami, Takuji ^a   Nishimura, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metastatic germ cell tumors; RFA

Indexed keywords

MARKER;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COOLING; DRAINAGE TUBE; ELECTRODE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEEDLE; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SAFETY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEASHORE; THERAPY EFFECT; THORAX; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84864607346     PISSN: 03850684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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