Treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma by percutaneous tumor ablation methods: Ethanol injection therapy and radiofrequency ablation

In Japan, ∼30,000 patients died of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in 2003. Ten percent had hepatitis B virus infection and 80% had hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, indicating that viral hepatitis accounted for >90% of cases of HCC. In comparison, only 3% (1.5%, hepatitis B virus; 1.5%, HCV) of...

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