title: [A case of successful combination therapy with trans-arterial embolization, trans-arterial chemotherapy and radiofrequency ablation therapy].
abstract: A patient is a 78-year-old male. Abdominal ultrasound tomography revealed hepatic tumors. Abdominal computer tomography (CT) revealed a 5.5 cm-in-diameter low enhanced lesion and a 4.0 cm-in-diameter enhanced lesion at S8, and a 1.8 cm-in-diameter enhanced lesion at S5, a 1.4 cm-in-diameter enhanced lesion at S6, which led to a diagnosis of combined hepatocellular carcinoma with intra-hepatic metastasis (IM2) in July 2007. From August to October 2006, he received a hepatic combination therapy with trans-arterial chemotherapy at a low enhanced lesion and trans-arterial embolization (TAE), and radiofrequency ablation therapy (RFA) at enhanced lesions. As of June 2008, this patient is still alive with no recurrence after 8 months from the beginning of this treatment. In conclusion, it might have been effective and suitable to combine multiple therapies to each of the tumor characteristics for mixed hepatocellular carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, Suita Municipal Hospital.
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Taku
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yasumoto
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Yoshihito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: Hideoki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yokouchi
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mikami
authors.forename: Masakatsu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kinuta
authors.forename: Kohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murata
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016461:Chemoembolization, Therapeutic; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed