title: [A case of liver metastasis from gastric cancer successfully treated with radio-frequency ablation therapy].
abstract: We report a case of liver metastasis from gastric cancer successfully treated with radio-frequency ablation therapy. The patient was a 63-year-old man whom we performed distal gastrectomy with D2 lymphnode dissection for type II gastric cancer on April 2004. A post operative pathological finding was pT2N1M0, Stage II. Therefore, the operation was evaluated to be as curative A. No adjuvant therapy was performed. After 11 months computed tomography showed a space occupied lesion (SOL) in S7 segment of the liver, we thought it to be as liver metastasis. We performed radio-frequency ablation therapy, and complete response was obtained. He is alive without a sign of recurrence for 30 months. We thought that radio -frequency ablation therapy was one of the useful treatments for liver metastasis from gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, Suita Municipal Hospital.
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsunaga
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yanagisawa
authors.forename: Yoshihito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: Hideoki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yokouchi
authors.forename: Taku
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yasumoto
authors.forename: Masakatsu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kinuta
mesh_terms: D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008872:Microwaves; D008875:Middle Aged; D012074:Remission Induction; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography