Treatment of colorectal metastases: surgery, cryotherapy, or radiofrequency ablation.
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.
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University Surgical Unit, Southampton General Hospital, UK. j.n.primrose@soton.ac.uk
D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D017679:Cryotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy*; D018579:Patient Selection; D011379:Prognosis; D016896:Treatment Outcome