ReviewRadiologic clinics of North America2015
Liver Ablation: Best Practice.
Review in Radiologic clinics of North America, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05009550 (Effect of Erector Spina Plain), which is not on this map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effect of Erector Spina Plain (ESP) Block on Patient Outcomes in Patients With Liver Tumor Undergoing Radiofrequency Ablation
Who cites it
51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Surgical approach to microwave and radiofrequency liver ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma and colorectal liver metastases less than 5 cm: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Pooled it
- Clinical efficacy of ultrasound guided erector spinae plane block in patients undergoing microwave ablation.Saudi medical journal · 2022Trial
- Review
- Histotripsy for liver tumours: a systematic review and meta-analysis of current clinical evidence.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Ablation Confirmation Software in Thermal Ablation of Liver Tumours: A Scoping Review of Contemporary Applications and Clinical Usability.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2026Review
- Volumetric thermometry in moving tissues using stack-of-radial MRI and an image-navigated multi-baseline proton resonance frequency shift method.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2026Article
- Clinical Efficacy of Percutaneous Image-Guided Ablation in Breast Cancer Metastases to the Liver.Cancers · 2025Article
- CT-guided Thermal Ablation of Liver Tumors Using Intraprocedural CT-CT Fusion for Applicator Position and Ablation Completeness Assessment: a Single-Center Comparative Analysis.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2025Article
- Deep learning-based reconstruction and superresolution for MR-guided thermal ablation of malignant liver lesions.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2025Article
- Review
- Preoperative imaging of colorectal liver metastases: what the radiologist and the multidisciplinary team need to know.The British journal of radiology · 2024Review
- Using Patient-Specific 3D Modeling and Simulations to Optimize Microwave Ablation Therapy for Liver Cancer.Cancers · 2024Article
- Configuring thermal ablation volumes for treatment of distinct tumor shapes: a repeatability study using a robotic approach.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Ablation therapy for patients with colorectal liver metastases with and without extrahepatic metastases: evaluation of long-term outcomes and prognostic factors.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2023Article
- Uncooled TATO microwave system for liver ablation.Hepatic oncology · 2022Article
- Microwave ablation and synchronous transarterial chemoembolization combined with PD-1 inhibitor in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma following tyrosine kinase inhibitor intolerance.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- An overview of the irreversible electroporation for the treatment of liver metastases: When to use it.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- Local control of hepatocellular carcinoma and colorectal liver metastases after surgical microwave ablation without concomitant hepatectomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2021Article
- Stereotactic navigation versus ultrasound guidance in placing IRE applicators in a liver phantom.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Perfluorobutane contrast-enhanced ultrasonography: a new standard for ultrasonography-guided thermal ablation of sonographically occult liver tumours?Singapore medical journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
Tumor ablation in the liver has evolved to become a well-accepted tool in the management of increasing complex oncologic patients. At present, percutaneous ablation is considered first-line therapy for very early and early hepatocellular carcinoma and second-line therapy for colorectal carcinoma liver metastasis. Because thermal ablation is a treatment option for other primary and secondary liver tumors, an understanding of the underlying tumor biology is important when weighing the potential benefits of ablation. This article reviews ablation modalities, indications, patient selection, and imaging surveillance, and emphasizes technique-specific considerations for the performance of percutaneous ablation.
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