Combined Treatment of Large Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization and Percutaneous Ethanol Injection with a Multipronged Needle: Experimental and Clinical Investigation
β Scribed by Rinako Kawamura; Toshihito Seki; Hideto Umehara; Kozo Ikeda; Ryosuke Inokuchi; Toshiki Asayama; Takashi Yamaguchi; Yu Takahashi; Masayuki Sakao; Riccardo Lencioni; Kazuichi Okazaki
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 463 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-086X
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## Background: The long term efficacy of combination therapy with transcatheter arterial embolization (tae) followed by percutaneous ethanol injection (pei) was studied in patients with large primary hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) tumors and cirrhosis. ## Methods: The series included 83 patients
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most severe sequelae of chronic liver disease. The only potentially curative therapeutic options are surgical resection and orthotopic liver transplantation. In most HCC patients, however, at clinical presentation the tumors are unresectable because of mu