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CASE REPORT: A long‐term survivor of jejunal leiomyosarcoma with liver metastasis: Effective transcathetel arterial embolization for hepatic metastatic foci
Author(s) -
HARA TOSHIYA,
WADA IKUKO,
KAJIHARA SUSUMU,
MIZUTA TOSHIHIKO,
YAMAMOTO KYOSUKE,
SAKAI TAKAHIRO
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.214
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1440-1746
pISSN - 0815-9319
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1998.tb00700.x
Subject(s) - medicine , leiomyosarcoma , embolization , metastasis , arterial embolization , radiology , angiography , biopsy , liver biopsy , hepatic artery embolization , cancer
We report a case of jejunal leiomyosarcoma with liver metastases in a 52‐year‐old Japanese male. An echogram demonstrated multiple cystic liver masses in April 1991. The diagnosis of metastatic leiomyosarcoma was made on the basis of characteristic hepatic angiography images and liver biopsy findings. The jejunal leiomyosarcoma was resected and unresectable liver metastatic foci were treated repeatedly with transcathetel arterial embolization. Transcathetel arterial embolization was considered to be effective in this case as the patient survived 4 years and 9 months after the first treatment.