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Liver atrophy after transcatheter arterial embolization and percutaneous ethanol injection therapy for a minute
1Department of Internal Medicine, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa, Japan.
Gastrointestinal Radiology
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 63-year-old male patient with compensated cirrhosis underwent transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) and percutaneous ethanol injection therapy (PEIT) for a minute hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although the HCC was successfully treated, esophageal varices worsened and refractory ascites developed 3 months after the TAE and PEIT. Liver atrophy progressed rapidly compared to the natural course of liver cirrhosis.