Chemotherapy and radiation therapy are ineffective against primary and secondary malignant hepatic tumors. Surgical resection has been considered the only potentially curative option, but few patients with hepatic tumors are candidates for surgery. Recent results suggest that radiofrequency thermal
Radiofrequency ablation of metastatic liver tumor
β Scribed by Van Tuyl, Anna; Ghosh, Bimal C.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 274 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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