Portal vein embolization: What do we know?

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 999-1008

  Denys, Alban ^a   Prior, John ^a   Bize, Pierre ^a   Duran, Rafael ^a   De Baere, Thierry ^b   Halkic, Nermin ^a   Demartines, Nicolas ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Embolization; Embolotherapy; Interventional oncology; Portal vein

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BEVACIZUMAB; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIGLYCINE DERIVATIVE TC 99M; ENBUCRILATE; ETHIODIZED OIL; FIBRIN GLUE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GELATIN SPONGE; GELFOAM; INDOCYANINE GREEN; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; MEBROFENIN TC 99M; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE PLUS SODIUM DIATRIZOATE; NITINOL; OXALIPLATIN; SERUM ALBUMIN TC 99M; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FATTY LIVER; FUTURE REMNANT LIVER; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HEMATOMA; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; LIVER VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE; LIVER WEIGHT; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN EMBOLIZATION; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VEIN LIGATION;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER REGENERATION; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84867578026     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-011-0300-1     Document Type: Review

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