Embolization of liver metastases.
Hepatic embolization using the percutaneous transcatheter technique can provide valuable palliation of symptoms in patients with inoperable liver metastases. The method is not without complications and since its effect on patient survival is only modest the principal indication for its use is the amelioration of symptoms directly attributable to liver metastases such as local pain or the unpleasant humoral effects produced by secondary deposits from active endocrine tumours.
Allison
D J
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Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care