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Laser and Focused Ultrasound Ablation of Primary and Secondary Liver Tumours

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Multi-Treatment Modalities of Liver Tumours

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Many patients with primary and secondary liver tumours are unsuitable for surgical resection but would benefit from minimally invasive therapy. The particular advantages of minimally invasive therapy are (i) the procedure can usually be performed under local anaesthesia, as a day-or overnight-case, (ii) the mortality and morbidity associated with it are very low, especially when compared to hepatic surgery [1]. The aim of thermal tumour ablation is to destroy the entire tumour (ideally with a margin of lcm of normal tissue) but to avoid collateral damage to adjacent vital structures. Image guidance using MRI can help to achieve this goal by monitoring optimal fibre placement and assessing the extent of in vivo heating produced in target tissues as well as demonstrating the amount of necrosis produced at follow up.

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  1. Department of Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, London

    Elizabeth A. Dick & Wladyslaw M. W. Gedroyc

  2. Hepatology Unit, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, London

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Dick, E.A., Taylor-Robinson, S.D., Gedroyc, W.M.W. (2002). Laser and Focused Ultrasound Ablation of Primary and Secondary Liver Tumours. In: Habib, N.A. (eds) Multi-Treatment Modalities of Liver Tumours. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0547-1_16

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