Identifying Aberrant Hepatic Arteries Prior to Intra-arterial Radioembolization

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1482-1493

  van den Hoven, Andor F ^a   Smits, Maarten L J ^a   de Keizer, Bart ^a   van Leeuwen, Maarten S ^a   van den Bosch, Maurice A A J ^a   Lam, Marnix G E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aberrant hepatic artery; Pretreatment workup; Radioembolization; Variant anatomy

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; MACROSALB TC 99M; MICROSPHERE; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; YTTRIUM;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PET ANIMAL; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSPHERES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PETS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84934268070     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-014-0845-x     Document Type: Article

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