Temporary indwelling catheter system via the left brachial artery: evaluation in 83 patients with hepatic tumors.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of our study was to evaluate retrospectively the usefulness and complications associated with a temporary indwelling catheter system through the brachial artery for patients with liver tumors.


CONCLUSIONS
The temporary indwelling catheter system via the left brachial artery can be used not only for CO2-enhanced sonographically guided aspiration biopsy, radiofrequency ablation, and percutaneous ethanol injection, but also for short-term hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization.
Nagaoka
Sakae
S
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahimachi 67, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan. sakae-nagaoka@syd.odn.ne.jp
Itano
Satoshi
S
Nagamatsu
Hiroaki
H
Akiyoshi
Junji
J
Kurogi
Junichi
J
Tajiri
Nobuyoshi
N
Kajiwara
Masahiko
M
Sata
Michio
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001916:Brachial Artery; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies