Hydrochloric acid-enhanced radiofrequency ablation for treating a large hepatocellular carcinoma with spontaneous rapture: a case report

BACKGROUND: A ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is often fatal. In addition to surgery and transarterial embolization, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) might be another option for treating a ruptured HCC. Unfortunately, conventional RFA has a limited ablation zone; as such, it is rarely used to t...

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Autores principales: Huang, Jin-Hua, Morelli, John N., Ai, Fei, Zou, Ru-Hai, Gu, Yang-Kui, Gao, Fei, Zhang, Tian-Qi, Yao, Wang, Jiang, Xiong-Ying, Zhang, Yan-Yang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5219733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28061892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40880-016-0161-8
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: A ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is often fatal. In addition to surgery and transarterial embolization, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) might be another option for treating a ruptured HCC. Unfortunately, conventional RFA has a limited ablation zone; as such, it is rarely used to treat ruptured tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: This case was a 60-year-old man who had a large, ruptured HCC in which hydrochloric acid (HCl)-enhanced RFA successfully controlled the bleeding and made the tumor completely necrotic. CONCLUSION: Considering the effectiveness of HCl-enhanced RFA in achieving hemostasis and tumor ablation, it might be a new option for treating large, ruptured HCCs.

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