Radioembolization with 90Y resin microspheres for HCC patients with extensive tumor thrombosis into the extrahepatic vessels

Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar; Claus Christian Pieper; Samer Ezziddin; Hans Jürgen Biersack; Carsten Meyer

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000000367

Radioembolization with 90Y resin microspheres for HCC patients with extensive tumor thrombosis into the extrahepatic vessels

Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Mar;39(3):305-7. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000367.

Authors

Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar¹, Claus Christian Pieper, Samer Ezziddin, Hans Jürgen Biersack, Carsten Meyer

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine, and †Radiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

PMID: 24458185
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000367

Abstract

Tc-MAA uptake in the portal vein tumor thrombus may be a predictor of a favorable response to radioembolization. We report here 2 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and massive intrahepatic and extrahepatic tumor thrombus that showed Tc-MAA uptake in SPECT/CT, who underwent radioembolization with Y resin microspheres. The patients did not experience any adverse effects.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnostic imaging*
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / therapy*
Embolization, Therapeutic
Female
Humans
Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Liver Neoplasms / therapy*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Microspheres*
Multimodal Imaging
Resins, Synthetic
Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging*
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Yttrium Radioisotopes / therapeutic use*

Substances

Resins, Synthetic
Yttrium Radioisotopes