Abstract
With the passing of Dr. Claudio Maurizio Pacella in January 2020, the medical community has lost one of its prominent members and esteemed colleagues.Dr. Pacella graduated in 1973 from the Faculty ...
Highlights
With the passing of Dr Claudio Maurizio Pacella in January 2020, the medical community has lost one of its prominent members and esteemed colleagues
Dr Pacella graduated in 1973 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rome, where he subsequently completed his residency in radiology
With an ever-inquiring mind, sensitivity, and with acute intelligence, he started investigating the possibility of applying laser energy in the treatment of cancer patients, and his studies and experiments led to a technique for ultrasoundguided liver laser ablation, which he first successfully applied in the treatment of patients with liver metastases [4]
Summary
With the passing of Dr Claudio Maurizio Pacella in January 2020, the medical community has lost one of its prominent members and esteemed colleagues. In the 1980s, he started the percutaneous treatment of liver tumors [1], and since he continued to apply minimally-invasive, imageguided treatment to the care of his patients.
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