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SUBMITTER: Puijk RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6094448 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Puijk Robbert S RS Ruarus Alette H AH Vroomen Laurien G P H LGPH van Tilborg Aukje A J M AAJM Scheffer Hester J HJ Nielsen Karin K de Jong Marcus C MC de Vries Jan J J JJJ Zonderhuis Babs M BM Eker Hasan H HH Kazemier Geert G Verheul Henk H van der Meijs Bram B BB van Dam Laura L Sorgedrager Natasha N Coupé Veerle M H VMH van den Tol Petrousjka M P PMP Meijerink Martijn R MR
BMC cancer 20180815 1
<h4>Background</h4>Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA) are widely accepted techniques to eliminate small unresectable colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). Although previous studies labelled thermal ablation inferior to surgical resection, the apparent selection bias when comparing patients with unresectable disease to surgical candidates, the superior safety profile, and the competitive overall survival results for the more recent reports mandate the setup of a randomized c ...[more]