title: Temporary indwelling catheter system via the left brachial artery: evaluation in 83 patients with hepatic tumors.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahimachi 67, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan. sakae-nagaoka@syd.odn.ne.jp
authors.forename: Sakae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nagaoka
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Itano
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nagamatsu
authors.forename: Junji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Akiyoshi
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kurogi
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tajiri
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kajiwara
authors.forename: Michio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sata
mesh_terms: 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