Open AccessThermal Ablation in the Management of Colorectal Cancer Patients with Oligometastatic Liver Disease
Author(s) -
Ele. Petre,
Constantinos T. Sofocleous
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
visceral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2297-475X
pISSN - 2297-4725
DOI - 10.1159/000454697
Subject(s) - medicine , thermal ablation , colorectal cancer , ablation , disease , cancer , general surgery , surgery
Surgical resection of limited colorectal liver disease improves long-term survival and can be curative in a subset of selected cases. Image-guided percutaneous ablation therapies have emerged as safe and effective alternative options for selected patients with unresectable colorectal liver metastases (CLM) that can be ablated with margins. Ablation causes focal destruction of tissue and has increasingly been shown to provide durable eradication of tumors.