INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of using 188Re Lipiodol for selective internal radiation therapy of inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). CLINICAL PICTURE A 33-year-old female with poorly-differentiated multicentric HCC, elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and increased serum alkaline phosphatase. TREATMENT Over a 2-month interval, the patient was treat...

is an effective palliative treatment for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, several complications of TACE have been reported, including transient fever and pain after the procedure, hepatic infarction, liver abscess, hepatic failure, biliary stricture, and biloma [1–3], although acute obstructive cholangitis due to migration of the necrotic tumor after TACE is very rare. We r...

We report the case of a 33-year-old man with a testicular tumor and multiple lung metastases. After high orchiectomy, chemotherapy was administered. Subsequently, fluoroscopy-assisted thoracoscopic resection was performed for pulmonary lesions that had decreased in size after the chemotherapy but had persisted. Because four pulmonary lesions were too small to detect by fluoroscopy during the op...

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of the liver is a very rare lesion that has radiologic similarity with malignant liver tumor. Differential diagnosis of IMT from a malignant lesion of the liver is very important because surgical resection is not mandatory for IMT. Lipiodol computed tomography is a very sensitive and specific diagnostic tool for hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC). Herein, w...

BACKGROUND It is critical to follow up hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) in clinical practice. Computed tomography (CT) is used to assess lipiodol deposition, whereas it is difficult to assess hypovascular residual cancer masked by lipiodol. In contrast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is superior to CT in showing residual cancer, but cannot d...

PURPOSE Computed tomography (CT) lymphography is a simple technique of sentinel node navigation but tissue reaction after injection of contrast media has not been reported yet. METHODS NINETY MICE USED IN THIS STUDY WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS: lipiodol, iopamidol, and normal saline. The test compounds were given by submucosal injection to the gastric wall of anesthetized mice. The specime...

conclusion the study data highlighted good value of iodine-based material decomposition images of spectral ct in assessment of both lipiodol deposition and residual cancer for follow-up of hcc patients previously treated with tace. background it is critical to follow up hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (tace) in clinical practice. computed tomography...

PURPOSE Lipiodol, which was used in transcatheter arterial chemoembolization before liver stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), remains in SBRT. Previous we reported the dose enhancement in Lipiodol using 10 MV (10×) FFF beam. In this study, we compared the dose enhancement in Lipiodol and evaluated the probability of electron generation (PEG) for the dose enhancement using flattening fil...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical effect of renal artery embolization with a mixture of lipiodol and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particles on symptomatic renal angiomyolipoma and to present the mid-term results from our single-center site. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of the seven patients who underwent embolization with a mixture of lipiodol and PVA particles to treat symptomatic...

This study evaluated the factors impacting overall survival (OS) and time to progression (TTP) in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who received transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). HCC patients were grouped based on tumor vascularity and lipidiol deposition after TACE. Tumor vascularity was classified based on contrast enhancement on arterial phase baseline CT scans....