Superselective internal radiation with yttrium-90 microspheres in the management of a chemorefractory testicular liver metastasis. uri icon

Overview

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.

publication date

  • July 20, 2011

Research

keywords

  • Liver Neoplasms
  • Testicular Neoplasms
  • Yttrium Radioisotopes

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84862895917

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s00270-011-0226-7

PubMed ID

  • 21773859

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 35

issue

  • 2