Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Spinal Tumors: The Effect of the Posterior Vertebral Cortex Defect on Temperature Distribution in the Spinal Canal

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital National Clinical Research Center for Cancer Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer Tianjin, China.
² Tianjin Medical University Tianjin, China.
³ Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System Tianjin Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University Tianjin, China.

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C Zhang et al. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2018 Jan.

. 2018 Jan;39(1):E1-E2.

doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A5393. Epub 2017 Nov 16.

¹ Department of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital National Clinical Research Center for Cancer Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer Tianjin, China.
² Tianjin Medical University Tianjin, China.
³ Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System Tianjin Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University Tianjin, China.

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Percutaneous Spinal Ablation in a Sheep Model: Protective Capacity of an Intact Cortex, Correlation of Ablation Parameters with Ablation Zone Size, and Correlation of Postablation MRI and Pathologic Findings.
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