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Percutaneous cryoablation is considered to be a minimally invasive option for local treatment of cancer.Its efficacy is now being documented in many organs, including the prostate, liver, kidney and l
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Division of General Thoracic Surgery,Dept of Surgery
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Percutaneous cryoablation is considered to be a minimally invasive option for local treatment of cancer.Its efficacy is now being documented in many organs, including the prostate, liver, kidney and lung.The goal of ablation procedures is typically complete local tumour controlwhen surgical resection is not indicated, but ablation procedures, such as cryoablation, may also be applicable to the palliative care of cancer patients.Here, we present a case in which percutaneous cryoablation was considered to have contributed to symptom relief in a patient with unresectable, locally advanced, invasive thymoma of the mediastinum.To our knowledge, this is the first report of a needle ablation procedure performed for a mediastinal tumour.
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