Image-guide thermal ablations are nowadays increasingly used to provide a minimally invasive treatment to patients with renal tumours, with reported good clinical results and low complications rate. Different ablative techniques can be applied, each with some advantages and disadvantages according to the clinical situation. Moreover, percutaneous ablation of renal tumours might be complex in ca...

Primary liver cancer has a high incidence and high mortality rates, and currently the only viable option is surgery, although there are a number of difficulties related to this method. The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential advantages of the real-time contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) for microwave ablation of primary liver cancer. One hundred patients with primary...

Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA) can be as effective as surgical resection in terms of overall survival and recurrence-free survival rates in patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Effectiveness of RFA is adversely influenced by heat-sink effect. Other ablative therapies could be considered for larger tumors or for tumors located near the vessels. In this regard, recent i...

_____________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common malignancy in the world. Although it occurs predominantly in Asia and Africa, its incidence is rising in western countries where hepatitis C infection is common. Thermal destruction has been used effectively for many years for ablation of both s...

The Cox maze procedure developed originally in 1987 by Dr James Cox has evolved from a "cut and sew" surgical procedure, where the maze was applied using multiple surgical cuts, to an extensive use of surgical ablation technology where ablation lesions are placed with alternative energy sources (radiofrequency, cryothermy, microwave, and high-frequency ultrasound). Furthermore, the procedure ha...

In the last few years, minimally invasive tumor ablation performed by interventional radiologists has gained increasing relevance in oncologic patient care. Limitations of thermal ablation techniques such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA), microwave ablation (MWA), and laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT), including large tumor size, cooling effects of adjacent vessels, and tumor location near the...

The liver is a common site of disease for both primary and metastatic cancer. Since most patients have a disease that is not amenable to surgical resection, tumor ablation modalities are increasingly being used for treatment of liver cancer. This review describes the current status of ablative technologies used as alternatives for resection, clinical experience with these technologies, currentl...