Superselective internal radiation with yttrium-90 microspheres in the management of a chemorefractory testicular liver metastasis Journal Article


Authors: Sideras, P. A.; Sofocleous, C. T.; Brody, L. A.; Siegelbaum, R. H.; Shah, R. P.; Taskar, N. P.
Article Title: Superselective internal radiation with yttrium-90 microspheres in the management of a chemorefractory testicular liver metastasis
Abstract: We treated a patient with biopsy-proven, chemotherapy- resistant testicular cancer liver metastasis using Y-90 selective internal radiation treatment. We chose yttrium-90 rather than surgery and ablation due to tumor location and size as well as the patient's clinical history. The result was marked tumor response by positron emission tomography and computed tomography as well as significant improvement of the patient's quality of life accompanied by a substantial decrease of his tumor markers. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE).
Keywords: adult; cancer chemotherapy; human tissue; treatment response; clinical feature; fatigue; case report; cisplatin; gemcitabine; paclitaxel; cancer radiotherapy; positron emission tomography; anorexia; neoplasm; tumor localization; computer assisted tomography; tumor volume; etoposide; dyspnea; alkaline phosphatase; liver metastasis; disease severity; echography; testis tumor; interventional radiology; teratoma; alkaline phosphatase blood level; weakness; orchiectomy; aspiration biopsy; drug treatment failure; choriocarcinoma; liver injury; non seminomatous germinoma; upper respiratory tract infection; hypertransaminasemia; microsphere; yttrium 90; interventional oncology; metastasis resection; hepatic; radioembolization; intraarterial; urogenital; internatl radiation therapy
Journal Title: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume: 35
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0174-1551
Publisher: Springer  
Date Published: 2012-04-01
Start Page: 426
End Page: 429
Language: English
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-011-0226-7
PROVIDER: scopus
PUBMED: 21773859
DOI/URL:
Notes: --- - "Export Date: 1 August 2012" - "CODEN: CARAD" - "Source: Scopus"
Altmetric
Citation Impact
BMJ Impact Analytics
MSK Authors
  1. Rajesh Pravin Shah
    4 Shah
  2. Lynn Brody
    120 Brody