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Microwave Ablation for Malignant Liver Tumors Adjacent to the Hepatic Hilum

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Thermal ablation, such as radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, high-intensity focused ultrasound, and laser ablation, has been widely applied for the management of malignant liver tumors, owing to its advantages of minimal invasion, favorable efficacy, and reproducibility. However, thermal ablation has been generally considered to be unsuitable for tumors adjacent to the hepatic hilum for fear of the thermal-mediated biliary injury such as bile duct stricture and fistula formation. In recent years, with the improvement of equipment device and technique development, more investigators have begun to investigate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of local thermal ablation of liver tumors adjacent to the hepatic hilum. In this chapter, we focus on the microwave ablation technique, including the equipment, indications, patient preparation, procedures, clinical results, and complications in the treatment of malignant liver tumors adjacent to the hepatic hilum, and other thermal ablation techniques (radiofrequency ablation, high-intensity focused ultrasound, and laser ablation) are also introduced.

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  1. Department of Ultrasound, Navy General Hospital of PLA, 6 Fucheng Road, Beijing, 100048, China

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Ren, H., Cai, W., Liang, P. (2015). Microwave Ablation for Malignant Liver Tumors Adjacent to the Hepatic Hilum. In: Liang, P., Yu, Xl., Yu, J. (eds) Microwave Ablation Treatment of Solid Tumors. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9315-5_9

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