title: Local therapeutic treatments for focal liver disease.
abstract: Patients diagnosed with primary hepatic malignancies or metastases to the liver remain a difficult population to treat. A small percentage of these people can undergo surgical resection or transplantation. The remaining nonsurgical aggregate does not often benefit from conventional radiation and chemotherapy; minimally invasive means either to cure or palliate these patients are a requirement for complete cancer care. This article discusses image-guided local therapies used to treat this difficult patient population, focusing predominantly on radiofrequency ablation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 Old Clinic Building, Campus Box 7510, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7510, USA. sue_weeks@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burke
mesh_terms: D017115:Catheter Ablation; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D010166:Palliative Care; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted