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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-6-7
pubmed:abstractText
The effectiveness of transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) combined with percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) was investigated in 18 patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and compared with 18 patients with HCC treated by TAE therapy alone. In both groups, patients had multiple lesions or a single lesion larger than 3 cm. The pretreatment characteristics of the patients in the two groups showed that serum bilirubin in the TAE-PEI group was significantly higher than that in the TAE-only group, but that the patients in the two groups were comparable in all other respects. The cumulative survival rate of the TAE-PEI group estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method was 100% for 10 months, 82% for 20 months, 53% for 30 months and 18% for 40 months, whereas that of the TAE-only group was 75% for 10 months, 50% for 20 months, 30% for 30 months and 30% for 40 months. The survival rate in the TAE-PEI group was significantly higher than that in the TAE group. Moreover, the survival rate of patients whose main tumor was 4 cm or larger, was significantly higher in the TAE-PEI group than that in the TAE-only group. The average survival period of these patients in the TAE-PEI group was five times as long as that in the TAE-only group. The survival rate of Child's B and C patients in the TAE-PEI group was significantly higher than that in the TAE-only group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0172-6390
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
41
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
25-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Combination therapy with transcatheter arterial embolization and percutaneous ethanol injection for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article