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Evaluation of vascular supply with angio-computed tomography during intra-arterial chemotherapy for brain tumors.

Hirai T, Korogi Y, Ono K, Yamashita Y

Department of Radiology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan. toshinor@beige.ocn.ne.jp

We report the utility of a combined angiography and computed tomography (angio-CT) system in assessing drug distribution to the tumor during intra-arterial chemotherapy for metastatic brain tumors in a 65-year-old man. Although digital subtraction angiography did not clearly show tumor perfusion in two cerebellar tumors, angio-CT provided definite tumor perfusion in the complicated vascular territory, and anticancer agents were infused based on its findings. To our knowledge, however, this application for intra-arterial chemotherapy of brain tumors has not been previously described.

Published 3 June 2005 in Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol, 28(3): 354-7.
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