Local Control of Perivascular Malignant Liver Lesions Using Percutaneous Irreversible Electroporation: Initial Experiences

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 152-159

  Eller, Achim ^a   Schmid, Axel ^a   Schmidt, Joachim ^a   May, Matthias ^a   Brand, Michael ^a   Saake, Marc ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Lell, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Irreversible electroporation; Malignant liver lesion; Perivascular

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION DEVICE; LIVER CANCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS IRREVERSIBLE ELECTROPORATION; PERIVASCULAR MALIGNANT LIVER LESION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ELECTROPORATION; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930927925     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-014-0898-x     Document Type: Article

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