Advantage of microwave coagulo-necrotic therapy for hepatic cancer with chronic failure

Abstract

Percutaneous microwave coagulo-necrotic therapy were performed on 5 times of 4 patients with chronic renal failure. They ware 2 metastatic liver carcinomas and 2 hepatocellular carcinomas.
Serum creatinine levels and BUN levels did not indrease after the therapy. In this seriase occured burn injury of skin in one case, but other cases there were no complications.
This therapy seems to useful for the liver tumors with chronic renal failure or high risk patients for the operation.