- 著者
- Tetsuo ISOZAKI Takayoshi KIBA Kazushi NUMATA Satoru SAITO Takeshi SHIMAMURA Takehiko KITAMURA Katsumi MORITA Katsuaki TANAKA Hisahiko SEKIHARA
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.38, no.1, pp.17-21, 1999 (Released:2006-03-27)
- 参考文献数
- 20
- 被引用文献数
- 21 24
A 54-year-old man with medullary thyroid carcinoma in the thyroid gland was unable to undergo total thyroidectomy because the tumor had invaded the mediastinum. Radiation therapy and chemotherapy were given. Seven years later, intractable diarrhea and abdominal pain appeared, and computed tomography demonstrated hypervascular tumors in the thyroid gland and in the liver. The tumors were successfully treated with percutaneous ethanol injection to a lesion in the thyroid gland and transcatheter arterial embolization followed by percutaneous ethanol injection to tumors in the liver. Transcatheter arterial embolization and percutaneous ethanol injection may be valuable in treating medullary thyroid carcinoma.(Internal Medicine 38: 17-21, 1999)