Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 582-585 , April 2010

Treatment of Symptomatic Focal Nodular Hyperplasia with Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation

  • Pejman Hedayati, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
    • Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachussetts
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  • Eric vanSonnenberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
    • Arizona State University, Wilson Hall Emeritus College, Tempe, AZ
    • Kern/UCLA Medical Center, Bakersfield, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to E.V., Arizona State University, Old Main EC, Room 102, PO Box 873002, Tempe, AZ 85287-3002
    • ,
  • Raymond Shamos, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
    • ,
  • Thomas Gillespie, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
    • ,
  • William McMullen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona

Received 14 December 2006 ,Revised 28 October 2009 ,Accepted 28 December 2009.

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 None of the authors have identified a conflict of interest.

PII: S1051-0443(09)01656-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.12.385

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 582-585 , April 2010

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