Preoperative Portal Vein Embolization: An Approach to Improve the Safety of Major Hepatic Resection

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-153

  Thakrar, Pooja D ^a   Madoff, David C ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FATTY LIVER; FUTURE LIVER REMNANT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER EXAMINATION; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER WEIGHT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PREOPERATIVE PORTAL VEIN EMBOLIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER REGENERATION; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 79951707321     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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