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Gallbladder Needle Decompression During Radiofrequency Ablation of an Adjacent Liver Tumour

  • Dellano D. Fernandes, MD, FRCPC
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  • Paul B. Shyn, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Paul B. Shyn, MD, Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, L1, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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  • Stuart G. Silverman, MD, FACR

Division of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

published online 27 January 2012.
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Abstract 

Gallbladder perforation with bile leak can result from thermal injury during radiofrequency ablation of liver tumours. Two case studies demonstrate a technique for preventing gallbladder injury to the peritoneal surface of a distended gallbladder adjacent to the anticipated hepatic ablation zone. The use of percutaneous gallbladder needle decompression can safely separate or retract the peritoneal surface of the gallbladder from a contiguous hepatic radiofrequency ablation zone.

Résumé 

Une brûlure thermique peut causer une perforation de la vésicule biliaire avec écoulement biliaire pendant l’ablation par radiofréquence d’une tumeur hépatique. Deux études de cas révèlent une technique qui permet d’éviter d’endommager la surface péritonéale d’une vésicule biliaire distendue adjacente au site prévu d’une ablation hépatique. La décompression percutanée à l’aiguille de la vésicule biliaire permet en effet de séparer ou de rétracter en toute sécurité la surface péritonéale de la vésicule biliaire d’un site contigu d’ablation hépatique par radiofréquence.

Key Words: Radiofrequency ablation, Liver neoplasms, Gallbladder, Postoperative complications

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PII: S0846-5371(11)00074-X

doi:10.1016/j.carj.2011.05.003

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