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Double pigtail plastic stents (DPTPS) are routinely placed with the lumen apposing metal stent (LAMS) during endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage. Several reasons are postulated for this practice. This case report...
Iatrogenic air embolism is a rare and potentially fatal complication of gastrointestinal endoscopy. We present a 66-year-old male patient who developed cerebral arterial gas embolism shortly after therapeutic endoscopic retrograde...
Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization using drug-eluting beads (DEB-TACE) was developed to overcome the shortcomings of conventional TACE (c-TACE) and was expected the better clinical results. Based on the published studies so...
Combined biliary and duodenal stent placement has been reported previously in multiple series. Rarely, colonic obstruction may present simultaneously with duodenal and biliary obstruction in advanced pancreaticobiliary cancers. Biliary, duodenal...
Superselective transarterial radioembolization (TARE) refers the delivery of Y90 at the tumor-feeding segmental or subsegmental arteries. The purpose of TARE would be delivering high dose in the tumor while saving...
It is my great honor to be the guest editor for this special edition titled, “Recent updates in treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: from regional to systemic.”
In the treatment field of...
Transarterial chemotherapy (TACE) is the standard treatment for patients with intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), defined as large, unresectable, or multinodular HCC in patients with good functional performance. The definition of...
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has regarded as a curative treatment method for early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), providing comparable overall survival to surgical resection. However, lack of ideal guiding modality for...
Conventional transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) using ethiodized oil and gelatin sponge (GS) particles is a standard treatment for unresectable BCLC-B stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Ethiodized oil can cause temporary embolic micro-interactions...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer, the sixth most common cancer, and the fourth leading cause of cancerrelated deaths worldwide. There are curative local treatment options...