Medullary thyroid carcinoma with multiple hepatic metastases: Treatment with transcatheter arterial embolization and percutaneous ethanol injection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-21

  Isozaki, Tetsuo ^a   Kiba, Takayoshi ^a   Numata, Kazushi ^a   Saito, Satoru ^a   Shimamura, Takeshi ^a   Kitamura, Takehiko ^a   Morita, Katsumi ^a   Tanaka, Katsuaki ^a   Sekihara, Hisahiko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoid syndrome; Combination therapy; Liver metastasis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DOXORUBICIN; GELATIN SPONGE; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; ZINOSTATIN MALEIC ACID STYRENE COPOLYMER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INJECTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 0032913661     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.17     Document Type: Article

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