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Articles

  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Venous thromboembolic disease. Clinical practice guidelines in oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2006 Oct;4(9):838-69. Wagman LD, Baird MF, Bennett CL, Bockenstedt PL, Cataland SR, Fanikos J, Fogarty PF, Goldhaber SZ, Grover TS, Haire W, Hassoun H, Jahanzeb M, Leung LL, Linenberger ML, Millenson MM, Ortel TL, Salem R, Smith JL, Streiff MB.
  • Recommendations for Radioembolization of Hepatic Malignancies Using Yttrium-90 (Y90) Microsphere Brachytherapy: A Consensus Panel Report from the Radioembolization Brachytherapy Oncology Consortium (REBOC). International Journal of Radiation Biology and Physics (In press). Andrew Kennedy, Subir Nag, Riad Salem, Ravi Murthy, Alexander J. McEwan, Charlie Nutting, Al Benson Joseph Espat, Jose Ignacio Bilbao, Ricky A Sharma, James P Thomas, Douglas Coldwell.
  • Regional Yttrium-90 Microsphere Treatment of Surgically Unresectable and Chemotherapy-Refractory Metastatic Liver Carcinoma. Cancer Biotherapy & Radiopharmaceuticals. Aug 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4: 305-313. Ching-Yee Oliver Wong, Michael Savin, Kanchi M. Sherpa, Feng Qing, Janice Campbell, Vanessa L. Gates, Robert J. Lewandowski, Vincent Cheng, Joseph Thie, Darlene Fink-Bennett, Conrad Nagle, Riad Salem.
  • Transarterial hepatic radioembolization of yttrium-90 microspheres. British Imaging and Intervention Journal. 2006; 2(3):e43. Murthy R, Habbu A, Salem R.
  • Multishot Diffusion-Weighted Propeller Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Abdomen. Invest Radiol. 2006 Oct;41(10):769-775. Deng J, Miller FH, Salem R, Omary RA, Larson AC.
  • Radioembolization with Yttrium-90 Microspheres: An Emerging Transcatheter Embolotherapy Treatment for the Primary and Secondary Liver Tumours. Future Oncology. In press 2007. Gates VL, Atassi B, Lewandowski RJ, Salem R.
  • Radioembolization with 90Yttrium Microspheres – A State of the Art Brachytherapy Treatment for Primary and Secondary Liver Malignancies Part 1: Technical and Methodological Considerations. J Vasc Interv Radiol, 2006. 17(8): p. 1251-1278. Salem R, Thurston KG.
  • Radioembolization with 90Yttrium Microspheres – A State of the Art Brachytherapy Treatment for Primary and Secondary Liver Malignancies Part 2: Special Topics. J Vasc Interv Radiol, 2006. 17(9):1425-39. Salem R, Thurston KG
  • Radioembolization with 90Yttrium Microspheres – A State of the Art Brachytherapy Treatment for Primary and Secondary Liver Malignancies Part 3: Comprehensive Literature review and Future Directions. J Vasc Interv Radiol, 2006 Oct;17(10):1571-93. Salem R, Thurston KG.
  • Yttrium-90 Microspheres (TheraSphere®) Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Downstaging to Resection, RFA and Bridge to Transplantation. Journal of Surgical Oncology. In press. Kulik L, Atassi B, Van Holsbeeck L, Souman T, Lewandowski RJ, Mulcahy MF, Hunter RD, Nemcek A, Abecassis M, Haines KG, Salem R.
  • Diffusion-weighted MRI for determination of hepatocellular carcinoma response to Yttrium-90 Radioembolization. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2006 Jul;17(7):1195-200. Deng J, Miller FH, Rhee TK, Sato KT, Mulcahy MF, Kulik LM, Salem R, Omary RA, Larson AC.
  • Comparison between intravenous and intraarterial contrast injection for dynamic 3D MRI of liver tumors in the VX2 rabbit model. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2006 Jul;24(1):242-7. Larson AC, Rhee TK, Deng J, Wang D, Sato TK, Salem R, Paunesku T, Mulcahy MF, Li D, Omary RA.
  • In Vivo Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of Liver Tumor Necrosis in the VX2 Rabbit Model at 1.5 Tesla. Invest Radiol 2006 Apr;41(4):410-414. Deng J, Rhee TK, Sato KT, Salem R, Haines K, Paunesku T, Mulcahy MF, Miller FH, Omary RA, Larson AC.
  • Successful Embolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Yttrium-90 Glass Microspheres Prior to Liver Transplantation. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2006 Mar;10(3):413-6. Kim DY, Kwon DS, Salem R, Chan KM, Abouljoud M.