Complications of Microwave Ablation for Liver Tumors
Author No. of patients Approach No. of tumors Tumor size (cm) Mortality (%) Major complications (%) (per patient/per session) PHC Mets Liang et al. [2] 1,136 PC 1,412 516 3.4…
Percutaneous Microwave Ablation for Benign Focal Liver Lesions
Characteristics Number of patients Male 26 (37.8 %) Female 34 (62.2 %) With 1 mass ablated 53 (88.3 %) With 2 masses ablated 6 (10.0 %) With 3 masses ablated…
Percutaneous Microwave Ablation for Liver Tumors Adjacent to Large Vessels
Author No. of patients/nodules Tumor size (cm) Treatment Median operating times (mins) Technical effectiveness (%) Total/local recurrence (%) Median survival time (mons) Survival rate (%) Complications (%) Follow-up (months) 1-…
Microwave Ablation: Principles and Techniques
Fig. 1.1 Photographs of microwave equipment. (a) Intelligent microwave generator. (b) Prototype internally cooled microwave antenna with different shaft length (10–18 cm) and active tip (3–22 mm). The diameters of…
First-Trimester Ultrasound: Early Pregnancy Failure
Known etiologies Possible etiologies Parental chromosomal abnormality Environmental exposures Untreated hypothyroidism Heritable and/or acquired thrombophilias Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus Infection Septated congenital uterine anomaly Maternal alcoholism Asherman’s syndrome Polycystic ovarian syndrome…
Normal First Trimester of Pregnancy
Fig. 7.1 Normal early gestational sac. (a) Transabdominal transverse image at 5 weeks, 1 day, showing an apparently empty early gestational sac (white arrow) eccentrically located within the decidua (black…
Multiple Gestations—Multiple Headaches
Fig. 14.1 Multiple corpora lutei. This is indicative of multiple follicular ovulation. Multiple corpora lutei can be a sign of a dizygotic pregnancy; however, it is also frequently seen with…
Ultrasound and Infertility
Fig. 2.1 Cervix measurement The baseline evaluation of the uterine body traditionally includes several features, comprising the overall size in standard dimensions of the uterus (length, height, width), position, the…
Ectopic Pregnancy: Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL)
hCG (mIU/mL) # (202) % Third–Fourth international standard <1000 162 80.2 1000–1499 19 9.4 1500–1999 12 5.9 ≥2000 9 4.5 Table 16.2 Reevaluation of the threshold and discriminatory levels [11]…
Fetal Anomalies
F femur, H humerus, T tibia, R radius aModified from ref. [4] In 2004, Souka et al. [6] published on the feasibility of examining cardiac and non-cardiac fetal anatomy in…
