Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report

BACKGROUND: Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a well accepted treatment for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). While minor complications involve 10% of all patients, severe complications are rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of a 90-year-old male with a large, superficial H...

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Autores principales: Reso, Artan, Ball, Chad G, Sutherland, Francis R, Bathe, Oliver, Dixon, Elijah
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19154593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-68
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author Reso, Artan
Ball, Chad G
Sutherland, Francis R
Bathe, Oliver
Dixon, Elijah
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Ball, Chad G
Sutherland, Francis R
Bathe, Oliver
Dixon, Elijah
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description BACKGROUND: Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a well accepted treatment for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). While minor complications involve 10% of all patients, severe complications are rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of a 90-year-old male with a large, superficial HCC who underwent TACE. He had a significant intraperitoneal bleed secondary to tumor rupture immediately following the procedure. CONCLUSION: Tumor size and superficial location must be considered risk factors for tumor rupture and related complications.
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spelling pubmed-26479132009-02-26 Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report Reso, Artan Ball, Chad G Sutherland, Francis R Bathe, Oliver Dixon, Elijah Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a well accepted treatment for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). While minor complications involve 10% of all patients, severe complications are rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of a 90-year-old male with a large, superficial HCC who underwent TACE. He had a significant intraperitoneal bleed secondary to tumor rupture immediately following the procedure. CONCLUSION: Tumor size and superficial location must be considered risk factors for tumor rupture and related complications. BioMed Central 2009-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2647913/ /pubmed/19154593 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-68 Text en Copyright ©2009 Reso et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Reso, Artan
Ball, Chad G
Sutherland, Francis R
Bathe, Oliver
Dixon, Elijah
Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report
title Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report
title_full Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report
title_fullStr Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report
title_short Rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report
title_sort rupture and intra-peritoneal bleeding of a hepatocellular carcinoma after a transarterial chemoembolization procedure: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19154593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-68
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