The First Department of Interventional Radiology, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200438, China.
World J Gastroenterol. 2010 Jan 21;16(3):398-402. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i3.398.
Cerebral lipiodol embolism (CLE) is an extremely rare complication of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The authors present a case of CLE that occurred after the second hepatic arterial chemoembolization for HCC, and attempt to introduce several plausible mechanisms of CLE, after reporting the clinical and radiological findings and reviewing the medical literature.
脑内碘化油栓塞(CLE)是肝癌经导管动脉化疗栓塞(TACE)后一种极其罕见的并发症。作者报告了一例 CLE 病例,该病例发生在 HCC 的第二次肝动脉化疗栓塞后,并在报告了临床和影像学发现并回顾了医学文献后,尝试介绍了 CLE 的几种可能机制。