Trans-Splenic Portal Vein Embolization: A Technique to Avoid Damage to the Future Liver Remnant

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1514-1518

  Sarwar, Ammar ^a   Brook, Olga R ^a   Weinstein, Jeffrey L ^a   Khwaja, Khalid ^a   Ahmed, Muneeb ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Oncology; Portal vein embolization; Trans splenic access

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; YTTRIUM 90;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLIZATION; BILE DUCT CANCER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOEMBOLIZATION; RISK REDUCTION; SPLENIC VEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; ANGIOPLASTY; HYPERTROPHY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER RESECTION; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOPLASTY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84966283621     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-016-1359-5     Document Type: Article

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