title: Current status of liver tumor ablation devices.
abstract: The liver is a common site of disease for both primary and metastatic cancer. Since most patients have a disease that is not amenable to surgical resection, tumor ablation modalities are increasingly being used for treatment of liver cancer. This review describes the current status of ablative technologies used as alternatives for resection, clinical experience with these technologies, currently available devices and design rules for the development of new devices and the improvement of existing ones. It focuses on probe design for radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation and cryoablation, and compares the advantages and disadvantages of each ablation modality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53792, USA. orourke@surgery.wisc.edu
authors.forename: Ann P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: O'Rourke
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Haemmerich
authors.forename: Punit
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Prakash
authors.forename: Mark C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Converse
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Mahvi
authors.forename: John G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Webster
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D016019:Survival Analysis