Cryotherapy for liver metastases

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bala, Malgorzata M ^a   Riemsma, Robert P ^b   Wolff, Robert ^b   Kleijnen, Jos ^b,c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b KLEIJNEN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CRYOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LOBECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEGMENTECTOMY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADULT; FEMALE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROCEDURES; SECONDARY;

ADULT; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84887826160     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009058.pub2     Document Type: Review

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