Abstract
Treatment with radiofrequency thermoablation of elderly patients suffering from hepatocarcinoma (HCC)
Highlights
Treatment with radiofrequency thermoablation of elderly patients suffering from hepatocarcinoma (HCC)
In elderly patients hepatocarcinoma is often not treatable by surgery in consequence of their reduced tolerance to liver resection for the concomitant cirrhosis, which frequently is the cause of death
Radiofrequency thermoablation is a valid method for the treatment of HCC in elderly patients with high surgical risk, because is effective repeatable, with low incidence of peri and post-operative complications
Summary
Treatment with radiofrequency thermoablation of elderly patients suffering from hepatocarcinoma (HCC). Address: Department of General and Specialist Surgery, Second University of Naples, Italy * Corresponding author from XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Terni, Italy. Published: 1 April 2009 BMC Geriatrics 2009, 9(Suppl 1):A49 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-9-S1-A49. XI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1-
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