Role of paravertebral block anaesthesia during percutaneous transhepatic thermoablation.

Purpose: This paper discusses the technique and preliminary results of right thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) for percutaneous thermal ablation of liver tumours.

Materials And Methods: Between October 2011 and August 2012 we treated 36 lesions (25 hepatocellular carcinoma and 11 metastases) in 30 patients aged 47-85 years (mean 67.5).