[Rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma with multiple pulmonary metastasis successfully treated by transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) of tumor: a case report]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1991 Nov;18(14):2471-5.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 66-year-old woman was hospitalized in a state of shock with rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma and multiple pulmonary metastasis. Her bleeding was successfully controlled by emergency transcatheter arterial embolization with Lipiodol (Lp-TAE). Treatments with UFT, OK-432 and two additional Lp-TAE caused the disappearance of pulmonary metastasis with AFP levels decreased and natural killer cell activity increased. The patient died one and a half years after the emergency Lp-TAE. The disappearance of pulmonary metastatic lesions seemed to be caused by improvement of the patient's immunity, which related to the regression of primary tumor after Lp-TAE. It was suggested that Lp-TAE is worth undertaking even in rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma with remote metastatic lesions.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / secondary*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / therapy
  • Chemoembolization, Therapeutic*
  • Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Female
  • Hepatic Artery
  • Humans
  • Iodized Oil / administration & dosage
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Lung Neoplasms / therapy
  • Mitomycin / administration & dosage
  • Picibanil / administration & dosage
  • Prognosis
  • Remission Induction
  • Rupture, Spontaneous
  • Tegafur / administration & dosage
  • Uracil / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Tegafur
  • Picibanil
  • Mitomycin
  • Uracil
  • Iodized Oil
  • Doxorubicin

Supplementary concepts

  • 1-UFT protocol