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Cryotherapy and Other Ablative Procedures

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Hepatic malignancies represent a substantial medical problem. Not only is the liver a common site for primary cancers, it is also a common site for growth of a variety of metastatic cancers. Because of its vascularity, and its position at the delta of the portal circulation, growth of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers in the liver is particularly common. For example, 25% of patients presenting with colorectal cancer will be found to have metastases to the liver at the time of diagnosis,1,2 and 50% of patients treated with colonic/rectal resection will have tumour recurrence in the liver within five years.3

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary, Lauriston Place, EH3 9YW, Edinburgh, UK

    O. J. Garden (Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery) (Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery)

  2. Professorial Department of Surgery, Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknall Road, NG5 1PB, Nottingham, UK

    J. G. Geraghty (Consultant Surgeon) (Consultant Surgeon)

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  4. European Institute of Oncology, Via Ripamonti 435, 20133, Milan, Italy

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Karpoff, H.M., Fong, Y., Blumgart, L.H. (1998). Cryotherapy and Other Ablative Procedures. In: Garden, O.J., Geraghty, J.G., Nagorney, D.M., Audisio, R.A., Stoldt, H.S. (eds) Liver Metastases. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1506-9_9

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