CHEMOEMBOLISATION (TACE) AND TREATMENT OF HCC

LEFT LOBE SURFACE HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA NOT FIT FOR SURGERY
TACE ANGIOGRAM SHOWING TUMOR BLUSH
POST TACE 6 MONTH MRI SHOWING COMPLETE NECROSIS OF TUMOR

Interventional radiologists plays a seminal role in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Other than chemical and radiofrequency or microwave ablation of early localised HCC, Transarterial chemoembolization by endovascular route is performed in certain varieties to achieve a high local dose of chemotherapeutic drug without much systemic side effects, this is followed usually by occlusion of the feeding arteries of the tumour to induce tumour death or necrosis.