Researchers have designed a thin polymeric sensor platform on a radiofrequency ablation needle to monitor temperature and pressure in real time. The sensors integrated onto 1.5 mm diameter needle tip ...

Radiofrequency ablation uses needle electrodes to deliver an alternating current that generates ionic agitation, localised frictional tissue heating and cell death. A range of electrode designs is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Radiofrequency ablation with a heated saline needle catheter was effective in eliminating clinical ventricular ...

March 9, 2011 (San Antonio, Texas) — Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) raises the survival rates in patients already receiving chemotherapy for the treatment of metastatic liver disease, researchers ...

Data that guide selection of optimal local ablative therapy for the management localized hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are lacking. Because there are limited prospective comparative data for these ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Radiofrequency ablation had a technical efficacy of 96.1% for adults with low-risk thyroid cancer. Tumor ...

Mayo Clinic radiologist Dr. Jeffrey Peterson is performing radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for osteoid osteomas. These benign bone tumors, though rare, usually occur in the lower extremities of teens ...

Up to 100,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year alone. In almost half of these patients, the cancer will spread to the liver--and for many, this will prove deadly. The most ...

Evidence-based recommendations on radiofrequency ablation for palliation of painful spinal metastases. This involves inserting a needle-like probe containing an electrode into the spinal metastases.