Hepatic Artery Chemoembolization for Management of Patient with Advanced Metastatic Carcinoid Tumor: A Case Report

authors:

avatar KS Aljabri 1 , * , avatar H Raef 2

Department of Internal Medicine, Prince Mansour Hospital, khalidsaljabri@yahoo.com, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Division of Endocrinology,Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

how to cite: Aljabri K, Raef H. Hepatic Artery Chemoembolization for Management of Patient with Advanced Metastatic Carcinoid Tumor: A Case Report. Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2007;5(2): 105-108. 

Abstract

Liver metastases from carcinoid tumors are usu-ally diffuse at the time of diagnosis, and surgical resection is rarely feasible. The development and clinical application of an analog of soma-tostatin has provided a novel and frequently highly effective tool for control of carcinoid tu-mors; most patients however, become resistant to this therapy. Arterial hypervascularization of most liver metastases from carcinoid tumor ar-gues in favor of hepatic arterial chemoemboliza-tion. We report here a patient with carcinoid tu-mor with liver metastasis who has substantial tumor regression with hepatic artery chemoem-bolization

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