Microwave Ablation Treatment of Solid Tumors
Microwave ablation is a simple, affordable, and highly precise technique. After its successful application in treating liver tumors, it is now widely used to combat renal tumors, adrenal tumors, thyroid nodes, uterine fibroids and other solid tumors. This
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Microwave Ablation Treatment of Solid Tumors
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Microwave Ablation Treatment of Solid Tumors
Ping Liang • Xiao-ling Yu • Jie Yu Editors
Microwave Ablation Treatment of Solid Tumors
Editors Ping Liang The Department of Interventional Ultrasound Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing China
Jie Yu The Department of Interventional Ultrasound Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing China
Xiao-ling Yu The Department of Interventional Ultrasound Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing China
ISBN 978-94-017-9314-8 ISBN 978-94-017-9315-5 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9315-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London
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Preface
Tumor ablation refers to the direct application of chemical or thermal therapies to a tumor to achieve eradication or substantial tumor destruction. The principle of tumor ablation has been known for more than 100 years. Microwave ablation (MWA) is the term used for all electromagnetic methods of inducing tumor destruction by using devices with frequencies greater than or equal to 900 kHz. Microwave coagulation was initially developed in the early 1980s to achieve hemostasis along the plane of transec
