Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Treatment with Radio-frequency Ablation versus Ethanol Injection

Livraghi, Tito; Nahum Goldberg, S.; Lazzaroni, Sergio; Franca Meloni, Maria; Solbiati, Luigi; Scott Gazelle, G.

doi:10.1148/radiology.210.3.r99fe40655

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Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Treatment with Radio-frequency Ablation versus Ethanol Injection

Published in Radiology • Mar 1, 1999

Authors:

Tito Livraghi

S. Nahum Goldberg

Sergio Lazzaroni

Abstract

PURPOSE: To compare the effectiveness of radio-frequency (RF) ablation with that of percutaneous ethanol injection in the treatment of small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighty-six patients with 112 small (< or = 3-cm-diameter) HCCs underwent RF ablation (42 patients with 5...

Subject

Medicine

Ablation

Percutaneous

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