Chemoembolic lobectomy: imaging findings of hepatic lobar volume reduction after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization
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Chemoembolic lobectomy: imaging findings of hepatic lobar volume reduction after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Diagn Interv Radiol 2011;17(2):177-180 DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.3166-09.1
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Abstract

Hepatic lobar atrophy-hypertrophy complex formation is an uncommonly reported sequella of hepatic arterial embolotherapy procedures. Whereas radiation-induced hepatic lobar ablation has been described after intra-arterial therapy with yttrium-90 microspheres, this phenomenon has not been reported after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization. Here, we report a case of prominent hepatic lobar atrophy with contralateral lobar hypertrophy after chemoembolization and suggest a mechanism by which arterial embolization contributes to the volumetric response.

Keywords: chemoembolization, liver • atrophy, hypertrophy, lobectomy