Survival Outcomes of Very Small Drug-Eluting Beads Used in Chemoembolization of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Purpose: To assess the safety and efficacy of transarterial chemoembolization using a 75-μm drug-eluting embolic (DEE) in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Materials And Methods: The medical records of 109 patients with a mean age of 64.1 years (range 85-49) treated for unresectable HCC between November 2013 and August 2016 with transarterial chemoembolization using a 75-μm DEE were retrospectively reviewed.

Biomechanical failure properties and microstructural content of ruptured and unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Purpose: To test the hypothesis that ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are globally weaker than unruptured ones.

Methods: Four ruptured and seven unruptured AAA specimens were harvested whole from fresh cadavers during autopsies performed over an 18-month period. Multiple regionally distributed longitudinally oriented rectangular strips were cut from each AAA specimen for a total of 77 specimen strips.

Regional distribution of wall thickness and failure properties of human abdominal aortic aneurysm.

The regional distribution of wall thickness and failure properties in human abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) was explored. Three unruptured and one ruptured AAA were harvested as a whole during necropsy. Thickness was measured at about every 1.