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Thermal Ablation for the Treatment of Abdominal Tumors
Published on: March 7, 2011
Radiofrequency ablation of renal cell carcinoma
1Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. wmcdougal@partners.org
BJU International
|April 20, 2007
Abstract
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