Hepatocellular Cancer

Findings in hepatocellular cancer reported from S. Lee and co-researchers

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 5th, 2009

"The purpose of our study was to evaluate the factors related to intraprocedural and postprocedural pain during radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). For this retrospective study, we included 145 patients with 160 HCCs who underwent percutaneous radiofrequency ablation under local and IV conscious sedation from January 2006 to December 2006," scientists in Seoul, South Korea report.

"Patients' pain was scored using the visual analog scale (VAS) immediately after the procedure. Medical records with CT images were reviewed for patient factors, tumor characteristics, and procedural factors. We determined factors correlated with the higher level of...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-05-05)

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