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• The most common indications for the procedure are localized metastatic liver invasion or primary liver tumor.
• Portal vein embolization is performed in patients undergoing liver resection in whom the residual liver volume will not provide sufficient function (Fig. 41.1).
• This may be because the remaining (usually the left) lobe of the liver is small or because the resection needs to be extensive (extended hepatectomy).
• The intention of embolization is to divert portal venous blood flow from the liver to be resected into the segment that will remain following resection.
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Cleveland, T. (2010). Pre-operative Portal Vein Embolization. In: Kessel, D., Ray, C. (eds) Transcatheter Embolization and Therapy. Techniques in Interventional Radiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-897-7_41
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