[Clinical evaluation of the risk factors for liver abscess after TACE or RFA].

Radiofrequency ablation(RFA)and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) are widely enforced as a standard combined therapy for liver cancer. Liver abscess occurs occasionally as a complication. This clinical study was conducted to determine risk factors for liver abscess.

[Two cases of liver abscess caused by Clostridium perfringens after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization].

Case 1 involved a 74-year-old man. After transcatheter arterial chemoembolization( TACE) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a gas-containing lesion in the liver. The patient was diagnosed as having a gas-containing liver abscess, necessitating emergency drainage under laparotomy.

[A case report of GIST of the small intestine with multiple liver abscesses].

We report a case of a woman in her fifties presenting with abdominal pain, headache and high fever. Blood examination showed a high CRP level and liver dysfunction, and then abdominal CT scan showed multiple liver masses and a 5 cm submucosal tumor of the small intestine. We diagnosed the multiple liver masses as liver abscesses, so we administered antibiotics.

[A case of successful management of recurrent intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma by repeated radiofrequency ablations].

A 67-year-old man with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) underwent an extended right hepatectomy. Approximately, during the next 20 months after the operation, the patient underwent 6 times of radiofrequency ablation for solitary recurrence of ICC. He has survived for 26 months after hepatic resection with PS 0.