A new alternative technique to preserve native flow, for continuous hepatic artery chemotherapy, in presence of a right hepatic artery arising from superior mesenteric artery

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 27, 1999, Pages 1692-1694

  Di Carlo, Isidoro ^a,b   Lombardo, Rosario ^a   Puleo, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hepatic chemotherapy; Hepatic vascular anomalies; Liver metastasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER; CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GASTRODUODENAL ARTERY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL PERFUSION; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ARTERIES; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0032764504     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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