Time-lag performance of radiofrequency ablation after percutaneous ethanol injection for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma |
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Authors: | Kurokohchi Kazutaka Masaki Tsutomu Watanabe Seishiro Nakai Seiji Deguchi Akihiro Morishita Asahiro Yoneyama Hirohito Ohgi Tomohiro Ono Masahiro Yoshitake Akira Kako Takeshi Ohmachi Naoko Kiuchi Takaaki Maeta Tsuyoshi Yoshida Mitsuo Mori Yoshihiro Kohi Fumikazu Kuriyama Shigeki |
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Institution: | Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa University School of Medicine, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan. |
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Abstract: | We have previously reported that the combination therapy of percutaneous ethanol injection and radiofrequency ablation (PEI-RFA) was more effective than RFA alone to induce wider coagulated necrosis for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In the present study, the effect of time-lag performance of RFA after PEI was evaluated under the same ablation condition as PEI-RFA by analyzing the volume of coagulated necrosis, the energy requirement for ablation and the amount of ethanol injected into HCC. The comparative study between time-lag PEI-RFA and no time-lag PEI-RFA showed that the total energy requirement and the energy requirement per unit volume for whole and marginal coagulated necrosis were significantly smaller in the time-lag group than in the no time-lag PEI-RFA group. In time-lag PEI-RFA, the volume of coagulated necrosis induced positively correlated with the amount of ethanol injected into HCC as previously observed in PEI-RFA treatment. These results suggest that time-lag PEI-RFA can induce comparable coagulated necrosis with a smaller energy requirement than no time-lag PEI-RFA, and that time-lag PEI-RFA is likely to be less invasive than no time-lag PEI-RFA for inducing comparable coagulated necrosis. Thus, time-lag performance of RFA after PEI may make RFA treatment more effective and less invasive for the treatment of patients with HCC. |
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