Microwave Ablation for Lung Neoplasms: A Retrospective Analysis of Long-Term Results

Cykert, 2010, Factors associated with decisions to undergo surgery among patients with newly diagnosed early-stage lung cancer, JAMA, 303, 2368, 10.1001/jama.2010.793 Reck, 2013, Management of non-small-cell lung cancer: recent developments, Lancet, 382, 709, 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61502-0 Palma, 2012, Curative treatment of stage I non-small-cell lung cancer in patients with severe COPD: stereotactic radiotherapy outcomes and systematic review, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 82, 1149, 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.005 Timmerman, 2010, Stereotactic body radiation therapy for inoperable early stage lung cancer, JAMA, 303, 1070, 10.1001/jama.2010.261 Baumann, 2009, Outcome in a prospective phase II trial of medically inoperable stage I non-small-cell lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy, J Clin Oncol, 27, 3290, 10.1200/JCO.2008.21.5681 Dupuy, 2011, Image-guided thermal ablation of lung malignancies, Radiology, 260, 633, 10.1148/radiol.11091126 Kwan, 2014, Thermal ablation matches sublobar resection outcomes in older patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer, J Vasc Interv Radiol, 25, 1, 10.1016/j.jvir.2013.10.018 Kwan, 2014, An economic analysis of sublobar resection versus thermal ablation for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer, J Vasc Interv Radiol, 25, 1558, 10.1016/j.jvir.2014.07.002 Abbas, 2016, Stereotactic body radiotherapy and ablative therapies for lung cancer, Surg Oncol Clin N Am, 25, 553, 10.1016/j.soc.2016.02.008 Xiong, 2016, Lung ablation: whats new?, J Thorac Imaging, 31, 228, 10.1097/RTI.0000000000000212 Egashira, 2016, Percutaneous high-energy microwave ablation for the treatment of pulmonary tumors: a retrospective single-center experience, J Vasc Interv Radiol, 27, 474, 10.1016/j.jvir.2016.01.001 Acksteiner, 2015, Percutaneous microwave ablation for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the elderly: a promising outlook, J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol, 59, 82, 10.1111/1754-9485.12251 Zheng, 2014, Major complications after lung microwave ablation: a single-center experience on 204 sessions, Ann Thorac Surg, 98, 243, 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.03.008 Brace, 2009, Pulmonary thermal ablation: comparison of radiofrequency and microwave devices by using gross pathologic and CT findings in a swine model, Radiology, 251, 705, 10.1148/radiol.2513081564 Brace, 2009, Radiofrequency and microwave ablation of the liver, lung, kidney, and bone: what are the differences?, Curr Probl Diagn Radiol, 38, 135, 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2007.10.001 Wolf, 2008, Microwave ablation of lung malignancies: effectiveness, CT findings, and safety in 50 patients, Radiology, 247, 871, 10.1148/radiol.2473070996 Belfiore, 2013, Patients׳ survival in lung malignancies treated by microwave ablation: our experience on 56 patients, Eur J Radiol, 82, 177, 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.08.024 Feng, 2002, Percutaneous microwave coagulation therapy for lung cancer, Zhonghua Zhong Liu Za Zhi, 24, 388 Liu, 2013, High-powered percutaneous microwave ablation of stage I medically inoperable non-small cell lung cancer: a preliminary study, J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol, 57, 466, 10.1111/1754-9485.12068 Vogl, 2013, Factors influencing local tumor control in patients with neoplastic pulmonary nodules treated with microwave ablation: a risk-factor analysis, AJR Am J Roentgenol, 200, 665, 10.2214/AJR.12.8721 Simon, 2007, Pulmonary radiofrequency ablation: long-term results and efficacy in 153 patients, Radiology, 243, 268, 10.1148/radiol.2431060088 Allen, 2006, Morbidity and mortality of major pulmonary resections in patients with early-stage lung cancer: initial results of the randomized, prospective ACOSOG Z0030 trial, Ann Thorac Surg, 81, 1013, 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.06.066