Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma following Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation Thermal Injury.

In this report we present a patient with no other known cancer risk factors, who developed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma at the site of esophageal thermal injury which occurred during a radiofrequency catheter ablation procedure. To our knowledge this is the first reported malignant complication of the procedure. PMID: 32853572 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32853572?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - August 23, 2020 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Grubic AD, Ayazi S, Zaidi AH, Schwameis K, Jobe BA Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research