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Percutaneous cooled-tip microwave ablation under ultrasound guidance for primary liver cancer: a multicentre analysis of 1363 treatment-naive lesions in 1007 patients in China
  1. Ping Liang1,
  2. Jie Yu1,
  3. Xiao-ling Yu1,
  4. Xiao-hui Wang1,
  5. Qiang Wei2,
  6. Song-yuan Yu3,
  7. Hong-xin Li4,
  8. Hou-tan Sun5,
  9. Zheng-xin Zhang6,
  10. He-chun Liu7,
  11. Zhi-gang Cheng1,
  12. Zhi-yu Han1
  1. 1Department of Interventional Ultrasound, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
  2. 2Ultrasound Department, Nanjing Second Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
  3. 3Medical Ultrasonics Department, Wuhan Medical Treatment Centre, Wuhan, China
  4. 4Hepatobiliary Surgery Department, No.3 People's Hospital in Zhenjiang City, Zhenjiang, China
  5. 5Department of Medical Imaging and Special Examination, Anning Branch of Lanzhou General Hospital of Lanzhou Military Command, Lanzhou, China
  6. 6Department of Interventional Radiology, Xiangxi Tumor Hospital, Jishou, China
  7. 7Hepatobiliary Surgery Department, First People's Hospital in Jiujiang City, JiuJiang, China
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ping Liang, Department of Interventional Ultrasound, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China; liangping301{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2011-300975

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    We read with interest the article by Auernhammer and Göke1 on therapeutic strategies for liver metastasis in neuroendocrine carcinomas. Local tumour progress following radiofrequency ablation (RFA) occurred in only 6% of neuroendocrine carcinomas, but no data on overall survival and prognostic factors following RFA were available. As another thermal ablative technique for liver cancer, microwave ablation (MWA), which uses electromagnetic energy to rapidly rotate adjacent polar water molecules to achieve primarily active heating, shows the following advantages: higher intratumorous temperatures, larger ablation …

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    • Funding This study was funded by grants from the National Scientific Foundation Committee of China (30825010 and 81071210).

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by the Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of China.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.