Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization combined with radiofrequency ablation can improve survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumour thrombosis: Extending the indication for ablation?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Zheng, J S ^a   Long, J ^a   Sun, B ^a   Lu, N N ^a   Fang, D ^a   Zhao, L Y ^a   Du, N ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC ALKALOID; FLUOROURACIL; HYDROXYCAMPTOTHECINE; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; PIRARUBICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GELATIN SPONGE; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANGIOGRAPHY DEVICE; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; CANCER OF THE LIVER ITALIAN PROGRAMME SCORE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CHILD PUGH SCORE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL REMNANT LIVER VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER WEIGHT; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PNEUMOTHORAX; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTAL VEIN TUMOR THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION DEVICE; REMNANT LIVER VOLUME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTACTIC DEVICE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOTAL LIVER VOLUME; TUMOR THROMBUS; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CANCER OF THE LIVER ITALIAN PROGRAM SCORE; PATIENT SAFETY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84899958680     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2014.01.015     Document Type: Article

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