Chemoembolization in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Chemoembolization in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is the standard of care for nonsurgical patients with preserved liver function with large or multinodular noninvasive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) confined to the liver. The administration of an anticancer-in-oil emulsion followed by embolic agents is the most popular TACE technique; however, the introduction of embolic, drug-eluting beads (DEB)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Liver Cancer
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1664-5553,2235-1795
DOI: 10.1159/000339019