Hepatectomy combing with intraoperative microwave tissue coagulation therapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Abstract

We performed hepatectomy of the main tumor combined with intraoperative microwave tissue coagulation (MTC) therapy for the daughter nodule when these daughter nodules, that were not preoperatively detected, were pointed out by the intraoperative ultrasonography and radical resection could not be performed. The prognosis and quality life of 12 cases, who were treated with such combination therapy, were relatively good. Hepatectomy combined with MTC therapy might be useful for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma based on liver cirrhosis, who could not be tolerant of radical operation.