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Our multimodal treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has brought about a significant improvement of the survival rate. It consists of a combination of hepatectomy and transcatheter arterial embolization using lipiodol (L-TAE). In order to facilitate L-TAE, we have developed a special catheter with notches. A group of patients with HCC (124 cases), excluding cases with absolutely non-curative resections and operative deaths, were treated between December 1980 and November 1986. Each case was treated for more than 1 year after hepatectomy. The patients were divided into two groups: A, patients with a single tumor not larger than 5 cm, and B, cases with larger tumors or more than one lesion. Some patients in each group were treated with L-TAE after hepatectomy. In group A, there was no significant difference in survival between treated and non-treated cases. In group B, L-TAE gave a significantly better survival than no postoperative treatment.
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Shimamura, Y., Takenaka, Y., Ishii, M. et al. Multimodal treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. 23 (Suppl 1), S87–S89 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00647248
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