Prostate Artery Embolization with 4D-CT.

Prostate artery embolization (PAE) is a technically challenging angiographic therapy that has been shown to have excellent clinical outcomes for men with benign prostatic hyperplasia and lower urinary tract symptoms. Although clinical outcomes have been well documented, several questions remain regarding various technical details of the procedure. This article is a brief review of indications and technical parameters of PAE as well as commonly debated topics throughout the literature.

Radioembolization Planning With Dual-Isotope Acquisition of 166 Ho-Labeled Microparticles and 99m Tc-Mebrofenin.

A 76-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma was referred for liver radioembolization. Given a prior left hemihepatectomy, it was clinically important to consider potentially irradiated healthy liver at planning. Thus, at the SPECT/CT imaging of the scout dose 166 Ho-microparticles before injected superselectively in the right hepatic artery, 99m Tc-mebrofenin was injected intravenously, and functional volumetry SPECT was performed simultaneously.

Situs Inversus Totalis: A Clinical Review.

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital abnormality characterized by a mirror-image transposition of both the abdominal and the thoracic organs. While this anomaly is known since the ancient times, practicing doctors do not have much experience with it. Laterality is established early in development, and any failure in that process might lead to a wide variety of disorders which may be partial or complete.

Minimally invasive image-guided therapy of primary and metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is a challenging malignancy with limited treatment options and poor life expectancy. The only curative option is surgical resection, but only 15%-20% of patients are resectable at presentation because more than 50% of patients has distant metastasis at diagnosis and the rest of them has locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). The standard of care first line treatment for LAPC patients is chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy.

Diagnosis and Management of a De Novo Urothelial Carcinoma in a Kidney Allograft: A Case Report.

Introduction: Following renal transplantation, the incidence of malignancies is 3-5 times higher than that of healthy individuals. Among other type of cancers, the risk of urological tumors is also elevated. However, only a few cases of de novo transitional cell carcinomas occurring in renal allografts have been reported.

[Role of interventional radiology in the transplantation of abdominal solid organs].

The transplantation of the abdominal organs has a major role in the treatment of several diseases. All subspecialities affected with the transplantation showed a rapid development in the last decades. The cooperation of the specialists of different segments of medicine provides the success of organ transplantation.

[Role of interventional radiological procedures in the treatment of liver cancer].

Invasive radiological procedures provide more and more therapeutic options for patients with liver cancer. The treatment options previously used as a 2nd/3rd line treatment are making their way to 1st line treatment in selected cases. In this review, the authors take an overview of the interventional radiological procedures used in the most frequent liver neoplasms.