Portal vein thrombosis following percutaneous ethanol injection therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma. |
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| Authors: | Daiki Habu Shuhei Nishiguchi Susumu Shiomi Akihiro Tamori Hiroki Sakaguchi Tadashi Takeda Shuichi Seki Chika Ishibashi Hitoshi Asai |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan. daiki@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp |
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| Abstract: | Percutaneous ethanol injection therapy was performed in a 66-year-old woman with hepatocellular carcinoma. She developed portal vein thrombosis that on color Doppler revealed no tumor vascular signal, and so was diagnosed as non-tumor thrombus. The thrombus resolved over 3 months. |
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