Spontaneous rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a life-threatening condition.
It is necessary to stop the bleeding and preferably to treat the tumor as early as
possible [
1
,
2
]. We report here, probably for the first time, emergency radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
as a palliative treatment for ruptured HCC.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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