[A comparative assessment of the effectiveness of dearterialization of the liver and intraorgan chemotherapy in patients with liver cancer].

An experience with treatment of 90 patients with primary (42) and metastatic (48) carcinomas of the liver who were treated by ligation of the hepatic artery (in 24 patients), embolisation of the hepatic artery (in 21 patients) in combination with intraarterial and intraportal chemotherapy or without it is analyzed. It has been shown that these methods are more effective in metastatic carcinoma of the liver, longer terms of life of the patients were obtained when dearterialization of the liver was combined with chemotherapy.