Predictors of survival after laparoscopic radiofrequency thermal ablation of hepatocellular cancer
โ Scribed by E. Berber; S. Rogers; A. Siperstein
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0930-2794
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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][
## Abstract ## Background Despite being one of the commonest causes of cancer-related death around the world, only 20 per cent of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) are amenable to curative treatment (surgical resection or liver transplantation). Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has emerged as a popula