Transcatheter arterial embolization for advanced tumor thrombus with marked arterioportal or arteriovenous shunt complicating hepatocellular carcinoma

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 155-162

  Izaki, Kenta ^a   Sugimoto, Koji ^a   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a   Hirota, Shozo ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous shunt; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Radiation therapy; Transcatheter arterial embolization; Tumor thrombus

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EPIRUBICIN; GELATIN SPONGE; GELFOAM; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IOPAMIDOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; PANCYTOPENIA; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242766200     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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