Importance of eliminating portal flow to produce large intrahepatic lesions with interstitial laser coagulation

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1245-1248

  Heisterkamp, J ^a,c   Van Hillegersberg, R ^a   Mulder, P G H ^a   Sinofsky, E L ^b   Ijzermans, J N M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Rare Earth Medical   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; FEMALE; LASER SURGERY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER INJURY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LASER COAGULATION; LIGATION; LIVER; PORTAL SYSTEM; SWINE;

EID: 0030817631     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800840914     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Stangl R, Altendorf-Hofmann A, Charnley RM, Scheele J. Factors influencing the natural history of colorectal liver metastases. Lancet 1994; 343: 1405-10.
2. Taylor I. Liver metastases from colorectal cancer: lessons from past and present clinical studies. Br J Surg 1996; 83: 456-60.
3. Busch E, Kemeny MM. Colorectal cancer: hepatic-directed therapy - the role of surgery, regional chemotherapy, and novel modalities. Semin Oncol 1995; 22: 494-508.
4. Bown SG. Phototherapy in tumors. World J Surg 1983; 7: 700-9.
5. Matthewson K, Coleridge-Smith P, O'Sullivan JP, Northfield TC, Bown SG. Biological effects of intrahepatic neodymium:yttrium-aluminium-garnet laser photocoagulation in rats. Gastroenterology 1987; 93: 550-7.
6. van Hillegersberg R, van Staveren HJ, Kort WJ, Zondervan PE, Terpstra OT. Interstitial Nd:YAG laser coagulation with a cylindrical diffusing liber tip in experimental liver metastases. Lasers Surg Med 1994; 14: 124-38.
7. Nolsøe CP, Torp-Pedersen S, Burcharth F et al. Interstitial hyperthermia of colorectal liver metastases with a US-guided Nd-YAG laser with a diffuser tip: a pilot clinical study. Radiology 1993; 187: 333-7.
8. Amin Z, Bown SG, Lees WR. Local treatment of colorectal liver metastases: a comparison of interstitial laser photocoagulation (ILP) and percutaneous alcohol injection (PAI). Clin Radiol 1993; 48: 166-71.
9. Tranberg KG, Möller PH, Hannesson P, Stenram U. Interstitial laser treatment of malignant tumours: initial experience. Eur J Surg Oncol 1996; 22: 47-54.
10. Vogl TJ, Muller PK, Hammerstingl R et al. Malignant liver tumors treated with MR imaging-guided laser-induced thermotherapy: technique and prospective results. Radiology 1995; 196: 257-65.
11. Amin Z, Donald JJ, Masters A et al. Hepatic metastases: interstitial laser photocoagulation with real-time US monitoring and dynamic CT evaluation of treatment. Radiology 1993; 187: 339-47.
12. Steger AC, Lees WR, Shorvon P, Walmsley K, Bown SG. Multiple-fibre low-power interstitial laser hyperthermia: studies in the normal liver. Br J Surg 1992; 79: 139-45.
13. Whelan WM, Wyman DR, Wilson BC. Investigations of large vessel cooling during interstitial laser heating. Med Phys 1995; 22: 105-15.
14. Heisterkamp J, van Hillegersberg R, IJzermans JNM. Lesion size produced by interstitial laser coagulation; cylindrical diffuser versus bare-tip fibre. In: Bown SG, Reidenbach HD, eds. Medical Applications of Lasers III. Proceedings of International Society for Optical Engineering. Vol. 2623. Bellingham: International Society for Optical Engineering, 1996: 238-45.
15. van Hillegersberg R, Heisterkamp J, Matheijssen NAA et al. MR-guided interstitial laser coagulation of solid tumors in an ex-vivo liver model. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1996; 8: A2 (Abstract).
16. Roggan A, Müller G. Dosimetry and computer based irradiation planning for laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT). In: Roggan A, Müller G, eds. Laser-induced Interstitial Thermotherapy. Bellingham: International Society for Optical Engineering, 1995: 114-57.
17. Henkel TO, Niedergehtmann M, Alken P. Critical evaluation of laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) performed on in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo models. In: Bown SG, Reidenbach HD, eds. Medical Applications of Lasers III. Proceedings of International Society for Optical Engineering. Vol. 2623. Bellingham: International Society for Optical Engineering, 1996: 266-75.
18. Svaasand LO, Boerslid T, Oeveraasen M. Thermal and optical properties of living tissue: application to laser-induced hyperthermia. Lasers Surg Med 1985; 5: 589-602.
19. Leen E, Goldberg JA, Robertson J et al. Early detection of occult colorectal hepatic metastases using duplex colour Doppler sonography. Br J Surg 1993; 80: 1249-51.
20. Breedis C, Young G. The blood supply of neoplasms in the liver. Am J Pathol 1954; 30: 969-85.
21. Peterson HI. Tumor Blood Circulation: Angiogenesis, Vascular Morphology and Blood Flow of Experimental and Human Tumors. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 1979.
22. van Hillegersberg R, Pickering JW, Aalders M, Beek JF. Optical properties of rat liver and tumor at 633 nm and 1064 nm: photofrin enhances scattering. Lasers Surg Med 1993; 13: 31-9.
23. Bosman S, Phoa SS, Bosma A, van Gemert MJ. Effect of percutaneous interstitial thermal laser on normal liver of pics: sonographic and histopathological correlations. Br J Surg 1991; 78: 572-5.
24. van Hillegersberg R, de Witte MT, Kort WJ, Terpstra OT. Water-jet-cooled Nd:YAG laser coagulation of experimental liver metastases: correlation between ultrasonography and histology. Lasers Surg Med 1993; 13: 332-43.
25. Thomson S. Identification of lethal thermal injury at the time of photothermal treatment. In: Roggan A. Müller G, eds. Laser-induced Interstitial Thermotherapy. Bellingham: International Society for Optical Engineering, 1995: 459-67.
26. Albrecht D, Germer CT, Bock A et al. Laparoscopic approach for laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT) of liver tumours. Br J Surg 1994; 81(Suppl 1): 84 (Abstract).
27. Funaki B, Rosenblum JD, Leef JA et al. Portal vein stenosis in children with segmental liver transplants: treatment with percutaneous transhepatic venoplasty. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1995; 165: 161-5.
28. De Poorter J, De Wagter C, De Deene Y, Thomson C, Stahlberg F, Achten E. Noninvasive MRI thermometry with the proton resonance frequency (RPF) method: in vivo results in human muscle. Magn Reson Med 1995; 33: 74-81.
29. Heisterkamp J, Matheijssen NAA, van Hillegersberg R et al. Development of MR-guided interstitial laser coagulation for solid tumours. Br J Surg 1996; 83(Suppl 2): 119 (Abstract).