Portal vein embolization before extended hepatectomy for biliary cancer: Current technique and review of 494 consecutive embolizations

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-29

  Ebata, Tomoki ^a   Yokoyama, Yukihiro ^a   Igami, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sugawara, Gen ^a   Takahashi, Yu ^a   Nagino, Masato ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholangiocarcinoma; Gallbladder cancer; Hepatectomy; Portal vein embolization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FIBRIN GLUE; HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT TUMOR; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HEMOSTATICS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859014114     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335718     Document Type: Article

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