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The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology

The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology 2012; 60(5): 335-338.

Published online: 22 November 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4166/kjg.2012.60.5.335

Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Drug-eluting Beads Chemoembolization and Liver Transplantation

Hyun Hwa Yoon, Young Kul Jung, Dong Hae Chung1, Seung Joon Choi2, Jeong Ho Kim2, Keon Kuk Kim3

Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea.

1Department of Pathology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea.

2Department of Radiology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea.

3Department of General Surgery, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Korea.

Correspondence to: Young Kul Jung, Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, 1198 Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon 405-760, Korea. Tel: +82-32-460-3778, Fax: +82-32-460-3426, 93cool@hanmail.net

Copyright © 2012 The Korean Society of Gastroenterology

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Fig. 1
(A) Transverse arterial phase CT scan showed a 15 mm inner nodule (white arrow) in the lesion that was enhanced and a peripheral one that was not enhanced. (B) Transverse equilibrium phase CT scan showed the enhanced inner portion appears as an area of hypoattenuation (white arrow).
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Fig. 2
(A) Hypervascular tumor staining (white arrows) around previous lipiodol uptaken mass in the right hepatic lobe. (B) Completion arteriogram of the right hepatic artery showed near-complete stasis of blood flow (white arrows) through S6 hepatic artery after transarteral chemoembolization with DC bead®.
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Fig. 3
(A) Main tumor showing complete necrosis. DC bead® was seen within and around the tumor (H&E, ×10). (B) DC bead® within the tumor which was in coagulation necrosis (H&E, ×100). (C) DC bead® buried in fibrous tissue around the tumor. Satellite nodule of hepatocellular carcinoma showing focal necrosis. No foreign body reaction was seen (H&E, ×100). (D) Intrahepatic biloma containing DC bead® (H&E, ×40).
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Notes

Financial support: None.

Conflict of interest: None.

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