TY - JOUR
T1 - Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) in treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma
AU - Barone, Michele
AU - Ettorre, Giovanni Carlo
AU - Ladisa, Roberta
AU - Schiavariello, Marianna
AU - Santoro, Cosima
AU - Francioso, Giuseppe
AU - Vinciguerra, Vincenzo
AU - Francavilla, Antonio
PY - 2003/1
Y1 - 2003/1
N2 - Background/Aims: Substantial differences about the efficacy of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma are reported in literature. This probably depends on the fact that in each single study, different patient selection criteria, type of epidemiological approach, end points adopted and kind of technical approach were used. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of segmental transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in amelioring patient survival and to determine which patients might really benefit from this treatment. Methodology: To achieve our goals 193 consecutive patients (110 treated and 83 untreated) were studied. They were selected in the same period of time and matched as far as their demographic and clinical characteristics. Results: Our results demonstrate that both in treated and control patients, Child class, a-fetoprotein and tumor diameter significantly influenced survival, resulting important prognostic factors. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization significantly ameliorated survival in treated patients compared to controls (p
AB - Background/Aims: Substantial differences about the efficacy of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma are reported in literature. This probably depends on the fact that in each single study, different patient selection criteria, type of epidemiological approach, end points adopted and kind of technical approach were used. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of segmental transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in amelioring patient survival and to determine which patients might really benefit from this treatment. Methodology: To achieve our goals 193 consecutive patients (110 treated and 83 untreated) were studied. They were selected in the same period of time and matched as far as their demographic and clinical characteristics. Results: Our results demonstrate that both in treated and control patients, Child class, a-fetoprotein and tumor diameter significantly influenced survival, resulting important prognostic factors. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization significantly ameliorated survival in treated patients compared to controls (p
KW - Hepatocellular carcinoma
KW - TACE
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M3 - Article
C2 - 12630019
AN - SCOPUS:12244308510
VL - 50
SP - 183
EP - 187
JO - Acta hepato-splenologica
JF - Acta hepato-splenologica
SN - 0172-6390
IS - 49
ER -