Balloon-occluded transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma

Figure 2 A 75-year-old man with hepatitis-B related hepatocellular carcinoma. A: Gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (EOB-MRI) showed that HCC was slightly enhanced in the arterial phase (white arrowhead); B: While angiography did not show the tumor stain obviously, we injected the lipiodol emulsion (LE) and fragmented gelatin sponge slurry from tumor-feeding artery under occlusion with microballoon inflation; C: A favorable LE accumulation (black arrowhead) was seen on computed tomography one day after balloon-occluded transcatheter arterial chemoembolization. HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma.