Irreversible electroporation of a hepatocellular carcinoma lesion adjacent to a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt stent graft

Korean J Radiol. 2013 Sep-Oct;14(5):797-800. doi: 10.3348/kjr.2013.14.5.797. Epub 2013 Aug 30.

Abstract

We report in a 65-year-old man hepatocellular carcinoma adjacent to a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt stent-graft which was successfully treated with irreversible electroporation (IRE). IRE is a new non-thermal tissue ablation technique which uses electrical pulses to induce cell necrosis by irreversible membrane poration. IRE proved to be more advantageous in the ablation of perivascular tumor with little injury to the surrounding structures.

Keywords: Carcinoma, hepatocellular; Catheter Ablation, radiofrequency; Irreversible electroporation; Liver neoplasms; Radiology, interventional.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnosis
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / surgery*
  • Electroporation / methods*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic*
  • Stents*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Doppler