Preoperative right portal vein embolization in patients with metastatic liver disease. Metastatic liver volumes after RPVE

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 98-102

  Barbaro, B ^a   Di Stasi, C ^a   Nuzzo, G ^a   Vellone, M ^a   Giuliante, F ^a   Marano, P ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT; Hypertrophy; Interventional procedure; Liver; Neoplasm; Portal vein; Therapeutic blockade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CARCINOID; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CARCINOID TUMOR; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0037208053     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0455.2003.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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