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CASE REPORT
Portal vein embolisation in a patient with situs inversus
  1. Igor Faria,
  2. Roberto Romulo Souza,
  3. Roberto Fuser Prosperi,
  4. Jose Hugo M Luz
  1. Department of Interventional Radiology, Instituto Nacional do Câncer (INCA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  1. Correspondence to Dr Roberto Fuser Prosperi, betopro{at}gmail.com

Summary

Portal vein embolisation (PVE) is a well-established technique used for patients who require major hepatic resections without sufficient volume of future remnant liver (FRL). We describe a case of PVE in a patient with situs inversus. Computed Tomography (CT) 4 weeks after the procedure demonstrated significant hypertrophy of the FRL. However, the surgical procedure was aborted due to signs of extrahepatic progression.

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-222890

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors All authors contributed significantly to the work, and have read the manuscript and approved its submission. IF wrote the paper and performed the procedure. RRS and JHML reviewed the paper and performed the procedure. RFP helped write the paper.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Next of kin consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.