Immediate increase in arterial blood flow in embolized hepatic segments after portal vein embolization: CT
1First Department of Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
|October 8, 1998
Abstract
Objective:
This study was conducted to determine whether an immediate change occurs in the blood flow distribution in hepatic segments after segmental portal vein embolization.
Conclusion:
We found an immediate change in the distribution of blood flow in the liver after embolization; with portal vein embolization, we found an immediate increase in the hepatic artery blood flow in the affected segments.
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