Radio-frequency tissue ablation: effect of pharmacologic modulation of blood flow on coagulation diameter. - Concepedia

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Radio-frequency tissue ablation: effect of pharmacologic modulation of blood flow on coagulation diameter.

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1998

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S. Nahum Goldberg, P F Hahn, E F Halpern, Rhonda Fogle, G. Scott Gazelle

Abstract

The coagulation necrosis achieved for a standardized RF application correlates with relative tissue perfusion. Pharmacologic reduction of blood flow during thermally mediated percutaneous ablation may induce greater coagulation necrosis.