Thermal ablation of colorectal liver metastases: a position paper by an international panel of ablation experts, the interventional oncology sans frontières meeting 2013

European Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3438-3454

  Gillams, Alice ^a   Goldberg, Nahum ^b   Ahmed, Muneeb ^b   Bale, Reto ^c   Breen, David ^d   Callstrom, Matthew ^e   Chen, Min Hua ^f   Choi, Byung Ihn ^g   de Baere, Thierry ^h   Dupuy, Damian ⁱ   Gangi, Afshin ^j   Gervais, Debra ^k   Helmberger, Thomas ^l   Jung, Ernst Michael ^m   Lee, Fred ⁿ   Lencioni, Riccardo ^o   Liang, Ping ^p   Livraghi, Tito ^q   Lu, David ^r   Meloni, Franca ^s   Pereira, Philippe ^t   Piscaglia, Fabio ^u   Rhim, Hyunchul ^v   Salem, Riad ^w   Sofocleous, Constantinos ^x   Solomon, Stephen B ^x   Soulen, Michael ^y   Tanaka, Masatoshi ^z   Vogl, Thomas ^aa   Wood, Brad ^ab   Solbiati, Luigi ^ac   more..

^a London Clinic Cancer Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f Ministry of Education Beijing   (China)

^g Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^h INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

ⁱ Massachusetts General Hospital ^*  (United States)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^k MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l Klinikum Bochenhausen   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^p CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^q HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^t UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^v Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^w NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x Sloan Memorial Kettering Hospital   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^z Yokokura Hospital   (Japan)

^aa GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^ab NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^ac NONE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Ablation techniques; Clinical protocols; Colorectal neoplasms; Consensus; Liver neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; COMORBIDITY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; THERMAL ABLATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SECONDARY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84946488416     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-015-3779-z     Document Type: Article

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