The Prognostic Role of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Patients with Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Radioembolization.

Purpose: To assess the prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with unresectable intermediate- or advanced-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated with yttrium-90 radioembolization (RE).

Materials And Methods: Retrospective chart review was performed for 176 patients with intermediate- or advanced-stage HCC treated with RE between August 2000 and November 2012. The appropriate NLR cutoff was determined by receiver operating characteristic curves.

A case-based approach to common embolization agents used in vascular interventional radiology.

Objective: The objective of this article is to familiarize the reader with the most commonly used embolic agents in interventional radiology and discuss an approach for selecting among the different embolic agents. This article reviews their properties and uses a case-based approach to explain how to select one.

Conclusion: A wide variety of embolic agents are available.

Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio is a simple and novel biomarker for prediction of survival after radioembolization for metastatic colorectal cancer.

Purpose: Previous studies have reported that an elevated preoperative Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) is associated with poor prognosis in patients with various solid tumors including colorectal cancer (CRC). Here, we examine whether NLR predicts survival in patients with unresectable CRC metastases undergoing hepatic radioembolization.

Methods: A retrospective review of 104 consecutive patients with unresectable metastatic CRC who were treated with radioembolization after failing first and second-line chemotherapy.

Retained surgical stents as a cause of biliary obstruction in pediatric liver transplants.

Background: Small-caliber plastic stents are sometimes placed across the hepaticojejunostomy in liver transplant recipients at the time of biliary reconstruction. These stents usually pass spontaneously, but they can be retained and, rarely, this may cause biliary obstruction.

Objective: The purpose of this paper is twofold: to describe the appearance of biliary tract obstruction caused by retained surgical stents in pediatric liver transplants, and to report how these stents can be removed using interventional radiology techniques.

Survival and tolerability of liver radioembolization: a comparison of elderly and younger patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

Aim: To evaluate the outcomes among elderly (≥70 years) and younger patients (<70 years) with liver-dominant metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who received radioembolization (RE) as salvage therapy.

Methods: A retrospective review of 107 consecutive patients with unresectable mCRC treated with RE after failing first- and second-line chemotherapy.

Results: From 2002 to 2012, 44 elderly and 63 younger (<70 years) patients received RE.