B. Popa, Monica Popiel, L. Gulie, C. Turculeț, M. Beuran
Spitalul Clinic de Urgență București
Abstract
First transcatheter embolization of hepatic artery has been materializing in 1974, in France, for unresectable hepatic tumors. Then this treatment has become use enough in many countries, especially in Japan, where primary hepatic tumors are very frequent. In this article we will discuss the endovascular treatment procedures and the role of intraarterial chemotherapy in hepatic tumors, based on the experience and good collaboration between Angiography and Surgery departments of Clinical Emergency Hospital. A diagnostic arteriography was performed to patients selected to in traarterial chemotherapy in order to better visualize hepatic vascular pat tern and the branches responsible for tumoral irrigation and to establish the most suitable treatment procedure: intraarteri al chemoi nfusion or chemoembolisation.