Two Cases of Needle-tract Seeding After Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for Lung Cancer

Overview

Journal J Vasc Interv Radiol

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Radiology

Date 2009 Jan 27

PMID 19167247

Citations 18

Authors

Takao Hiraki

Hidefumi Mimura

Hideo Gobara

Yoshifumi Sano

Hiroyasu Fujiwara

Toshihiro Iguchi

Jun Sakurai

Ryotaro Kishi

Susumu Kanazawa

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Abstract

The authors describe two cases of needle-tract seeding after percutaneous radiofrequency (RF) ablation for lung cancer. Needle biopsy was performed immediately before RF ablation in one case. In both cases, RF ablation was performed with a single internally cooled electrode, which was removed without cauterizing the electrode tract. The seeding nodule appeared 4 or 7 months after RF ablation and was then completely treated with a repeat RF ablation.

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