Ablation modalities
Heat
RFA: moving electrones, frictional heat, coagulation necrosis; monopolar/bipolar
MWA: oscillating water bipoles, frictional heat, coagulation necrosis; 2450/915MHz
Cold
Cryo: freezing and thawing; failed cell metabolism, crystallization/decrystallization, thrombosis; argon/N2O
Rational for ablation
It‘s minimally-invasive
It‘s easy to perform and safe
It‘s still constantly evolving (new generators, smaller applicators, computer-based treatment planning, ...)
It allows intra-procedural treatment control (CT, ...)
It can be repeated and combined (CHT, RTH, ...)
It can show a very high patient acceptability (outpatient care, ...)
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