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SUBMITTER: Negussie AH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7804415 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Negussie Ayele H AH de Ruiter Quirina M B QMB Britton Hugh H Donahue Danielle R DR Boffi Quentin Q Kim Young-Seung YS Pritchard William F WF Moonen Chrit C Storm Gert G Lewis Andrew L AL Wood Bradford J BJ
Scientific reports 20210112 1
Current therapy for hypervascular cancers, e.g., hepatocellular carcinoma, includes occlusion of the tumor blood supply by arterial infusion of embolic microspheres (beads) suspended in iodine-based contrast under fluoroscopic guidance. Available radiopaque, imageable beads use iodine as the radiopacifier and cannot be differentiated from contrast. This study aimed to synthesize and characterize imageable beads using bismuth as the radiopacifier that could be distinguished from iodine contrast b ...[more]