Percutaneous ablation for small hepatocellular carcinoma

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Yu Yin ◽  
Ming-De Lu
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (S3) ◽  
pp. 348-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoshi Hasegawa ◽  
Taku Aoki ◽  
Takeaki Ishizawa ◽  
Junichi Kaneko ◽  
Yoshihiro Sakamoto ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Maurizio Pacella ◽  
Giampiero Francica ◽  
Giovanni Giuseppe Di Costanzo

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies worldwide and is increasingly detected at small size (<5 cm) owing to surveillance programmes in high-risk patients. For these cases, curative therapies such as resection, liver transplantation, or percutaneous ablation have been proposed. When surgical options are precluded, image-guided tumor ablation is recommended as the most appropriate therapeutic choice in terms of tumor local control, safety, and improvement in survival. Laser ablation (LA) represents one of currently available loco-ablative techniques: light is delivered via flexible quartz fibers of diameter from 300 to 600 μm inserted into tumor lesion through either fine needles (21g Chiba needles) or large-bore catheters. The thermal destruction of tissue is achieved through conversion of absorbed light (usually infrared) into heat. A range of different imaging modalities have been used to guide percutaneous laser ablation, but ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging are most widely employed, according to local experience and resource availability. Available clinical data suggest that LA is highly effective in terms of tumoricidal capability with an excellent safety profile; the best results in terms of long-term survival are obtained in early HCC so that LA can be proposed not only in unresectable cases but, not differently from radiofrequency ablation, also as the first-line treatment.


2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-Houng Wang ◽  
Sheng-Nan Lu ◽  
Hung-Da Tung ◽  
Chi-Sin Changchien ◽  
Chao-Hung Hung ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A558-A558
Author(s):  
M TAMANO ◽  
K KOJIMA ◽  
M OGUMA ◽  
M LIJIMA ◽  
T MUROHISA ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Scott P Patterson ◽  
Richard G Foster

This case report describes the chemoembolization of a small hepatocellular carcinoma employing a lipiodol drug delivery system utilizing a novel arterial pathway. Because the target lesion was precariously located adjacent to the inferior heart border and the diaphragm, it was unsuitable for imaging-guided microwave ablation. To achieve chemoembolization, several intraprocedural adaptations were necessary, given the variant anatomy encountered and difficulty accessing the left gastric artery through a celiac artery approach. The left gastric artery was selected from a superior mesenteric artery approach through the pancreaticoduodenal arcade (Rio Branco’s arcade). This case illustrates the importance of a mastery of the vascular anatomy and variants of hepatic arterial flow.


2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideo Horigome ◽  
Tomoyuki Nomura ◽  
Katsuhisa Saso ◽  
Makoto Itoh ◽  
Takashi Joh ◽  
...  

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