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CIRSE Guidelines on Percutaneous Ablation of Small Renal Cell Carcinoma

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    Franco Orsi

  3. Department of Radiology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Konstantinos Katsanos & Andy Adam

  4. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Munich, Bogenhausen, Munich, Germany

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Krokidis, M.E., Orsi, F., Katsanos, K. et al. CIRSE Guidelines on Percutaneous Ablation of Small Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 40, 177–191 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-016-1531-y

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