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Case Reports in Urology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 390912, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/390912
Case Report

Multimodality Fusion with MRI, CT, and Ultrasound Contrast for Ablation of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Hayet Amalou1 and Bradford J. Wood1,2

1Center for Interventional Oncology, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, MSC 1182, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
2Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Received 13 August 2012; Accepted 14 October 2012

Academic Editors: M. Gallucci, S. Giulini, A. Goel, A. Marte, and T. Nomura

Copyright © 2012 Hayet Amalou and Bradford J. Wood. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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