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Flooded Lung Generates a Suitable Acoustic Pathway for Transthoracic Application of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound in Liver

Background: In recent years, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has gained increasing clinical interest as a non-invasive method for local therapy of liver malignancies. HIFU treatment of tumours and metastases in the liver dome is limited due to the adjacent ultrasound blocking lung. One-lung...

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Autores principales: Lesser, Thomas Günther, Boltze, Carsten, Schubert, Harald, Wolfram, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ivyspring International Publisher 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27766022
http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijms.16411