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Percutaneous ethanol injection therapy (PEIT) is one of the most widely used local procedures to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Local-regional therapies are specific ablation modalities that introduce a damaging agent directly into the neoplastic tissue percuta-neously. These techniques are capable of destroying the tissue chemically, such as with sterile ethanol acetic acid, or thermally by laser, microwave, or radiofrequency (1–3). Percutaneous ethanol injection therapy was the first method to be proposed (4). It was conceived independently at the University of Chiba in Japan and at the Vimercate Hospital in Milan, Italy.
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Livraghi, T., Meloni, M.F. (2005). Percutaneous Ethanol Injection Therapy. In: vanSonnenberg, E., McMullen, W.N., Solbiati, L., Livraghi, T., Müeller, P.R., Silverman, S.G. (eds) Tumor Ablation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28674-8_15
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