[Case report of transarterial chemoembolization to lymph node metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2010 Nov;37(12):2699-701.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We performed transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) on the 67-year-old man who had hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma with hepatitis C, recurrence in the liver and lymph nodes.The metastasis in lymph node did not show a clear increase until dying, and TACE showed the possibility of one treatment method to the metastasis in lymph node of the hepatocellular carcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / pathology*
  • Chemoembolization, Therapeutic*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Lymphatic Metastasis*
  • Male