Editor:During recent decades, development of new technologies and their clinical applications as minimally invasive therapies have revolutionized management of patients with primary and metastatic tumors, including pediatric patients. In this respect, thermal ablation represents a common technique that was previously used mainly for palliative care, but is now increasingly used with curative intent. Literally, thermal ablation means destruction of material by heating it to cytotoxic temperatures. The two principal thermal ablation modalities developed for clinical use are radiofre-quency (RF) and microwave ablation, which work with different physical principles. Although the most commonly accepted use of ablation in children is for the treatment of osteoid osteoma (1), Bertocchini and coworkers (2) described a 6-month-old girl with recurrent chest wall chon-droid hamartoma managed successfully with RF thermal ablation.
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