Open AccessClinical efficacy of endovascular radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of portal vein tumor thrombus of primary hepatocellular carcinoma
Author(s) -
Zhong-Wu Chen,
Zhengyu Lin,
Yiping Chen,
Jian Chen,
Chun Jin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_784_17
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatocellular carcinoma , liver function , radiofrequency ablation , thrombus , radiology , surgery , transcatheter arterial chemoembolization , percutaneous , hepatectomy , ablation , resection
The objective of this study is to investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of Habib™ VesOpen, a new intravascular radiofrequency ablation (RFA) catheter in percutaneous puncture of portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) in patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma.