Fig. 8.1 Microwave ablation (MWA) in a 64-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) adjacent to the gallbladder. The tumor size is 2.4 × 2.1 × 1.9 cm. The distance between the gallbladder and tumor…
Fig. 14.1 The H&E staining slide of mice hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in situ after microwave ablation (MWA) (40×) In situ tumor ablation (destruction) can involve tumor antigen release. Our in…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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…
