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Feb, 2017

Radiofrequency ablation of pulmonary metastases from sarcoma: single-center retrospective evaluation of 46 patients

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
  • Takuya Sato
  • Toshihiro Iguchi
  • Takao Hiraki
  • Hideo Gobara
  • Hiroyasu Fujiwara
  • Jun Sakurai
  • Yusuke Matsui
  • Toshiharu Mitsuhashi
  • Junichi Soh
  • Shinichi Toyooka
  • Susumu Kanazawa
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Volume
35
Number
2
First page
61
Last page
67
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1007/s11604-016-0601-z
Publisher
SPRINGER

PURPOSE: This retrospective, single-center study evaluated radiofrequency (RF) ablation for pulmonary metastases of sarcoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-six patients with sarcoma (144 pulmonary metastases) underwent 88 RF ablation sessions. Data regarding local tumor progression, efficacy, procedural adverse events (AEs; National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, version 4.0), overall survival (OS), and OS-associated prognostic factors were retrospectively evaluated using univariate analyses. RESULTS: Local progression occurred in 22 of 144 tumors (15.3%). Primary and secondary efficacy rates were 83.5 and 90.0% at 1 year and 76.3 and 81.4% at 2 years, respectively. Seventy-three grade 1 AEs, 33 grade 2 AEs, and no grade ≥ 3 AEs were observed. Twenty-eight patients (60.9%) remained alive and 18 died, yielding 1-, 2-, and 3-year OS rates of 80.6, 70.1, and 47.1% (median survival time, 31.7 months). Univariate analysis revealed extrapulmonary metastasis (P = 0.005), noncurative RF ablation (P = 0.009), and a post-RF ablation disease-free interval of ≤12 months (P = 0.015) as significant negative prognostic factors. CONCLUSION: RF ablation is safe, offers good local control, and may be a viable treatment option for pulmonary metastasis of sarcoma.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11604-016-0601-z
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27864664
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000394270900003&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1007/s11604-016-0601-z
  • ISSN : 1867-1071
  • eISSN : 1867-108X
  • Pubmed ID : 27864664
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000394270900003

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