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Electrochemotherapy: from the drawing board into medical practice

Overview of attention for article published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine, March 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
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Title
Electrochemotherapy: from the drawing board into medical practice
Published in
BioMedical Engineering OnLine, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1475-925x-13-29
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Authors

Damijan Miklavčič, Barbara Mali, Bor Kos, Richard Heller, Gregor Serša

Abstract

Electrochemotherapy is a local treatment of cancer employing electric pulses to improve transmembrane transfer of cytotoxic drugs. In this paper we discuss electrochemotherapy from the perspective of biomedical engineering and review the steps needed to move such a treatment from initial prototypes into clinical practice. In the paper also basic theory of electrochemotherapy and preclinical studies in vitro and in vivo are briefly reviewed. Following this we present a short review of recent clinical publications and discuss implementation of electrochemotherapy into standard of care for treatment of skin tumors, and use of electrochemotherapy for other targets such as head and neck cancer, deep-seated tumors in the liver and intestinal tract, and brain metastases. Electrodes used in these specific cases are presented with their typical voltage amplitudes used in electrochemotherapy. Finally, key points on what should be investigated in the future are presented and discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 248 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 22%
Researcher 36 14%
Student > Master 30 12%
Student > Bachelor 30 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 7%
Other 30 12%
Unknown 53 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 47 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 43 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 35 14%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 15 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 5%
Other 35 14%
Unknown 64 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 August 2020.
All research outputs
#2,655,393
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from BioMedical Engineering OnLine
#52
of 867 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,971
of 235,685 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BioMedical Engineering OnLine
#1
of 23 outputs
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