Preoperative portal vein embolization: Is it useful?

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-20

  Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrophy hypertrophy; Hepatectomy; Portal vein embolization

Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1642567562     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-002-0800-0     Document Type: Review

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