Clinical application of radiofrequency ablation technology / 介入放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

For recent two decades,radiofrequency ablation technology(RFA)has made great progress in the field of the treatment for diseases for its distinguishing characteristic of microtrauma,targeted,effective and almost having no side-effect.At the very beginning,radiofrequency ablation was adopted in treating solid tumors,and since then it has been gradually practiced in treating benign diseases of solid organs such as hypersplenism,prostatic hyperplasia and widely used in almost every system of the body.Here,we review its therapic principle,types and clinical application.