My colleagues and I read with great interest the article by Livraghi et al., where the authors stated that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) could be considered the treatment of choice for patients with a singe hepatocellular carcinoma ี 2 cm, even when surgical treatment is possible. 1 We agree with th
Complications of radiofrequency ablation in hepatocellular carcinoma
โ Scribed by H. Rhim
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 178 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0942-8925
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If liver transplantation is not feasible, partial resection is considered the treatment of choice for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with cirrhosis. However, in some centers the first-line treatment for small, single, operable HCC is now radiofrequency ablation (RFA). In the current stud
The high incidence of tumor seeding along the needle tract, reported by Llovet et al., 1 has not been reported as a complication of radiofrequency (RF) ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with the cooled needle in studies that date from 1996 and include several hundred patients. [2][3][4][5][