Feasibility and safety of EUS-guided cryothermal ablation in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1142-1151

  Arcidiacono, Paolo Giorgio ^a   Carrara, Silvia ^a   Reni, Michele ^a   Petrone, Maria Chiara ^a   Cappio, Stefano ^a   Balzano, Gianpaolo ^a,d   Boemo, Cinzia ^a   Cereda, Stefano ^a   Nicoletti, Roberto ^a   Enderle, Markus Dominik ^b   Neugebauer, Alexander ^b   Von Renteln, Daniel ^c   Eickhoff, Axel ^c   Testoni, Pier Alberto ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ADVANCED PANCREATIC CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; BLEEDING; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COOLING; CRYOABLATION; CRYOSURGERY DEVICE; CRYOTHERM PROBE; CRYOTHERMAL ABLATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEATING; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY; RIGIDITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CRYOSURGERY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84869231609     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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