-transparent.png){kind=logo}
The possible use of percutaneous transhepatic low output microwave tissue coagulation therapy (PMCT) using ultra-sonography under local anesthesia for solitary liver cancer was studied. The subjects were 13 patients having primary or metastatic liver cancer with solitary liver tumor less than 3 cm in diameter, including 7 hepatocellular carcinomas and 6 metastatic liver cancers. PMCT was performed continuously 3 times at an output of 30 watts for 30 seconds at a time. Tumors less than 3 cm in diameter were completely coagulated by irradiation from 2 to 6 times, judging by enhanced CT. No tumor recurrence was recognized in the coagulation area. However, in two cases of metastasis from pancreatic carcinoma, multiple metastases were found at another site in the liver by 2 months after PMCT. Thus, the results suggest that PMCT is a useful therapy for small liver tumor as a local control.
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
February 1999,
The American journal of gastroenterology,
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
March 2001,
Journal of gastroenterology,
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
April 1998,
American journal of surgery,
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
July 2002,
Zhonghua zhong liu za zhi [Chinese journal of oncology],
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
November 2002,
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy,
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
November 1997,
Zhonghua zhong liu za zhi [Chinese journal of oncology],
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
October 2001,
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine,
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
January 2001,
Hepato-gastroenterology,
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
December 1998,
Hiroshima journal of medical sciences,
A Sawamura, and
K Aogi, and
K Yoshida, and
E Miyahara, and
K Minami, and
T Toge
October 1999,
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy,
