[Cryosurgical treatment in metastatic liver cancer].

Abstract

All patients endured cryosurgical operations well. Right-sided pleurisy developed in one patient that was eliminated by single puncture of pleural cavity. Short thrombocytopenia was observed in two patients. At present the patients are under dynamic control and the signs of further tumoral growth in the liver are not revealed. According to the data of ultrasonic investigation and computer tomography the process of connective tissue organization expressiveness of which depends on time of surgical intervention was noted in the areas of hepatic tissue subjected to cryosurgery.

• Authors: Iu V Nemytin, A G Rozhkov, M I Tsarev, V M Kitaev, A A Dmitrashchenko, N V Logacheva
• Journal: Voenno-meditsinskii zhurnal (Voen Med Zh) Vol. 322 Issue 5 Pg. 26-8, 96 (May 2001) ISSN: 0026-9050 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: [Kriokhirugicheskoe lechenie metastaticheskogo raka pecheni]
• PMID: 11550326 (Publication Type: Clinical Trial, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Cryosurgery
• Female
• Humans
• Liver Neoplasms (secondary, surgery)
• Male
• Middle Aged