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Treatment of colorectal metastases: surgery, cryotherapy, or radiofrequency ablation
  1. J N Primrose
  1. Correspondence to:
    J N Primrose, University Surgical Unit, F Level, Centre Block, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK;
    j.n.primrose{at}soton.ac.uk

Abstract

The liver is the most common site of metastases from colorectal cancer. There has therefore been growing interest in how liver metastases may be ablated. The most common techniques for ablation of liver metastases are surgical resection, cryotherapy, and increasingly in recent years, radiofrequency ablation.

  • colorectal cancer
  • liver metastases
  • cryotherapy
  • radiofrequence ablation
  • 5-FU
  • 5-fluorouracil

https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.50.1.1

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    • Conflict of interest

      Professor Primrose has served on an advisory board for Sanofi-Synthelabo, the manufacturers of oxaliplatin.