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Image-Guided BrachyAblation (IGBA) for Liver Metastases and Primary Liver Cancers

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Commonly utilized treatments for primary, secondary, and recurrent cancers of the liver include resection, radiofrequency ablation, percutaneous ethanol injection, transarterial chemoembolization, selective internal radiation therapy, and stereotactic body radiation therapy. Image-guided brachyablation represents another solution for treatment of these lesions with good outcomes. With computed tomography, ultrasound, or MRI guidance, interstitial catheters can be introduced percutaneously into the targeted lesions, allowing the subsequent delivery of ablative doses with sparing of other portions of the liver. In this chapter, we provide a brief overview of the evidence behind interstitial liver brachytherapy and outline a method for performing image-guided brachyablation for liver tumors.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, 200 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite B265, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Shyamal Patel MD & Mitchell Kamrava

  2. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Magdeburg, Leipzigerstr 44, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany

    Jens Ricke MD

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Davis Medical Center, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California, USA

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  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Davis Medical Center, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, California, USA

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  3. Division of Brachytherapy, Gynecologic and Sarcoma Services, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Patel, S., Ricke, J., Kamrava, M. (2017). Image-Guided BrachyAblation (IGBA) for Liver Metastases and Primary Liver Cancers. In: Mayadev, J., Benedict, S., Kamrava, M. (eds) Handbook of Image-Guided Brachytherapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44827-5_17

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