Drug Discov Ther. 2015;9(5):335-341. (DOI: 10.5582/ddt.2015.01049)

Extra vascular interventional treatment of liver cancer, present and future.

Hou WJ, Zhu XL


SUMMARY

Interventional therapy for liver cancer is a new type of treatment, and its progress has been influenced by the development of the large scale imaging instrument and various therapeutic apparatus. This article, from these two aspects, discusses the status and progress of interventional treatment of liver cancer.


KEYWORDS: Functional magnetic resonance imaging, contrast-enhanced CT, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, image fusion technology, radiofrequency tumor ablation, microwave ablation, cryoablation, percutaneous ethanol ablation, laser ablation, Nano-knife treatment

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