Sequential preoperative ipsilateral portal and arterial embolization in patients with liver tumors: Is it really the best approach?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2427-2428

  Gruttadauria, Salvatore ^a,b   Gridelli, Bruno ^a,b  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER SURGERY; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PORTAL VEIN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; TUMOR GROWTH;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 36848999273     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9239-4     Document Type: Letter

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