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Thermal Ablation for the Treatment of Abdominal Tumors
Published on: March 7, 2011
[Image-guided tumor ablation]
G Koch1, R L Cazzato2, J Caudrelier2
1Service de radiologie interventionnelle, CHU de Strasbourg, 1, place de l'Hôpital, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Institut d'anatomie normale, faculté de médecine de Strasbourg, 4, rue Kirschleger, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
Introduction:
Ablatives techniques for destroying in situ a tumoral process aim tissular necrosis by the application of several physical principles.
Material And Methods:
We searched MEDLINE®, Embase®, using (MeSH) words; from January 2005 through May 2017, and we looked for all the studies. Investigators graded the strength of evidence in terms of methodology, language and relevance.
Results:
Forty-seven articles were analyzed. We described ablative techniques and sorted them in thermal and non-thermal therapies according to the used physical principle and their frequency of use in the urological pathology.
Conclusion:
Percutaneous ablative therapies are mini-invasive techniques, which have an important role in tumors focal treatment. This article is a review of the ablative therapies and describes their physical principles, their equipment and their recent technological modifications, which have been developed to improve the clinical success of these techniques.
