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Minimally invasive techniques like high intensity focused ultrasound, radiofrequency ablation, cryo-ablation, laser ablation and microwave ablation have been used to treat both breast fibroadenomata and breast cancer as an alternative to surgical excision, potentially reducing the complications, improving cosmesis and reducing hospital stay. This review describes the most common minimally invasive techniques available, their history and some of the studies performed with these techniques in both benign and malignant lesions. In addition we described some of the difficulties of using these minimally invasive techniques such as optimization of anaesthesia, imaging and immobilisation in order to increase the complete histopathological ablation rates.

Original publication

DOI

10.1186/s40349-017-0097-8

Type

Journal article

Journal

J Ther Ultrasound

Publication Date

2017

Volume

5

Keywords

Breast, Cryo-ablation, High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), Laser ablation, Microwave ablation, Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)