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Needle Tract Seeding Following Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) of Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma to the Liver

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Authors Charles Fredericks, Bulent Arslan, Edie Chan, Bourke Firfir and Michael Mullane all declare they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Rush University, Jelke SouthCenter 1750 W. Harrison Street, Suite 785, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Charles Fredericks

  2. Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA

    Bulent Arslan

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, John H. Stroger Jr. Cook County Hospital, Chicago, USA

    Michael Mullane

  4. Department of Pathology, John H. Stroger Cook County Hospital, Chicago, USA

    Bourke L. Firfer

  5. Department of General Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA

    Edie Y. Chan

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Fredericks, C., Arslan, B., Mullane, M. et al. Needle Tract Seeding Following Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) of Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma to the Liver. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 38, 1349–1351 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-015-1124-1

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