Tumor seeding complicating radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma
β Scribed by G.Anton Decker; Gregory J. Gores; Lewis R. Roberts
- Book ID
- 118565928
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 76 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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Radiofrequency (RF) ablation is an alternative to percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) for single nonsurgical hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and is currently used as adjuvant therapy before liver transplantation. This phase II study assesses the treatment-related complications and response rate of R
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 A recent small study reported a high rate of neoplastic seeding after cooled-tip radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients who had undergone previous needle biopsy. Tumour seeding was associated with subcapsular tumour location, poorly d