Safety and efficacy of preoperative portal vein embolization with polyvinyl alcohol in 58 patients with liver metastases

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1620-1626

  Covey, Anne M ^a   Tuorto, Scott ^a   Brody, Lynn A ^a   Sofocleous, Constantinos T ^a   Schubert, Johanna ^a   Von Tengg Kobligk, Hendrik ^a   Getrajdman, George I ^a   Schwartz, Lawrence H ^a   Fong, Yuman ^a   Brown, Karen T ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644826590     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1593     Document Type: Article

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