Cardiovascular and interventional radiology
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Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol · Mar 2020
Transarterial Chemoembolisation (TACE) with Degradable Starch Microspheres (DSM) and Anthracycline in Patients with Locally Extensive Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC): Safety and Efficacy.
To evalutate safety and efficacy of degradable starch microspheres (DSM) as embolic agent in transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) of unresectable, locally extensive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). ⋯ DSM-TACE of HCC is safe even in patients with advanced disease stages. Tumour response and survival rates were encouraging in our series of patients with locally extensive disease.