Radiotherapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Ten patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) irradiated over 50 Gy were studied. In the patient with multiple HCCs, arterial embolization or ethanol injection were given previously. In 9 of the 10 lesions were decreased in tumor size. Histological examination for 6 lesions suggest remar...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Kanzo 1992/08/25, Vol.33(8), pp.611-616
Hauptverfasser:	NOTSUMATA, Kazuo, OKAZAKI, Atsushi, YOKOYAMA, Takanori, YAMAZAKI, Tadao, ITO, Masayoshi, SAKURAI, Yukihiro, TAKASU, Sacho, ABE, Takashi, IKEGAMI, Fumiaki, YAMAGUCHI, Kazuyoshi
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Sprache:	eng ; jpn
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Zusammenfassung:	Ten patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) irradiated over 50 Gy were studied. In the patient with multiple HCCs, arterial embolization or ethanol injection were given previously. In 9 of the 10 lesions were decreased in tumor size. Histological examination for 6 lesions suggest remarkable radiation effects. In 1 patients, disappearance of tumor of the truncus portal vein was observed. In another 2 patients, disappearance of arterio-portal shunt was observed, making an additional arterial embolization performmable. The present findings revealed that radiotherapy was useful to treat progressive HCC.
ISSN:	0451-4203 1881-3593
DOI:	10.2957/kanzo.33.611