Combined pulmonary tumour embolectomy and extended right hepatectomy with inferior vena cava resection for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

✍ Scribed by S. Uemoto; W. Fleming; B. E. Keogh; Mr N. A. Habib

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 181 KB
• Volume: 82
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800820142

✦ Synopsis

Pulmonary tumour embolism is a rare complication in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The case described here is of such an event that occurred during an extended right hepatectomy for HCC which was invading the inferior vena cava (IVC) and extending to the right atrium.