Flexible stents effectively relieved acute colonic obstruction secondary to malignant rectosigmoid neoplasm. Stent placement allowed patients to undergo single-stage surgery in most cases and provided palliative decompression in cases of inoperable or disseminated disease.

The results of this study will be helpful in determining the survival outcomes and treatment strategies for HCC patients in HBV-endemic areas.

One session of TACE using doxorubicin and lipiodol does not significantly aggravate HBV hepatitis in patients with HBV-related HCC.

Ethanol embolotherapy of hand AVMs improves symptoms in a certain percentage of patients with a relatively high risk of complications. According to the extent of AVMs, there was a trend toward a higher complication rate in treatment of AVMs involving fingers and a lower rate of therapeutic benefit in AVMs involving both the fingers and the palm.