Preoperative Portal Vein Embolization: Indications and Technical Considerations

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-78

  de Baere, Thierry ^a   Denys, Alban ^b   Madoff, David C ^c  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

liver metastases; liver primary tumors; liver surgery; portal vein embolization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ENBUCRILATE; FIBRIN GLUE; GELATIN; GELFOAM; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; THROMBIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CANCER; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER WEIGHT; MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 35548954130     PISSN: 10892516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.tvir.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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