Percutaneous cryoablation of hepatic tumors adjacent to the gallbladder: assessment of safety and effectiveness.
Publication/Presentation Date
9-1-2014
Abstract
PURPOSE: To assess safety and effectiveness of percutaneous image-guided cryoablation of hepatic tumors adjacent to the gallbladder.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty-one cryoablation procedures were performed to treat 19 hepatic tumors (mean size, 2.7 cm; range, 1.0-5.0 cm) adjacent to the gallbladder in 17 patients (11 male; mean age, 59.2 y; range, 40-82 y) under computed tomography (n = 15) or magnetic resonance imaging (n = 6) guidance in a retrospective study. All tumors (mean size, 2.67 cm; range, 1.0-5.0 cm) were within 1 cm (mean, 0.4 cm) of the gallbladder; seven (33%) were contiguous with the gallbladder. Primary outcomes included complication rate and severity and postprocedure gallbladder imaging findings. Secondary outcomes included technical success and technique effectiveness at 6 months.
RESULTS: Complications occurred in six of 21 procedures (29%); one (5%) was severe. Ice balls extended into the gallbladder lumen in 20 of 21 procedures (95%); no gallbladder-related complications occurred. The most common gallbladder imaging finding was mild, asymptomatic focal wall thickening after nine of 21 procedures (42%), which resolved on follow-up. Technical success was achieved in 19 of 21 sessions (90%). Six-month follow-up was available for 16 tumors; of these, all but two (87%) had no imaging evidence of local tumor progression.
CONCLUSIONS: Percutaneous cryoablation of hepatic tumors adjacent to the gallbladder can be performed safely and successfully. Although postprocedural gallbladder changes are common, they are self-limited and clinically inconsequential, even when the ice ball extends into the gallbladder lumen.
Volume
25
Issue
9
First Page
1449
Last Page
1455
ISSN
1535-7732
Published In/Presented At
Fairchild, A. H., Tatli, S., Dunne, R. M., Shyn, P. B., Tuncali, K., & Silverman, S. G. (2014). Percutaneous cryoablation of hepatic tumors adjacent to the gallbladder: assessment of safety and effectiveness. Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR, 25(9), 1449–1455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2014.04.023
Disciplines
Diagnosis | Medicine and Health Sciences | Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Radiology
PubMedID
24906627
Department(s)
Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Medical Imaging
Document Type
Article