Chemoembolization of the liver
Puts cancer medicine into a liver tumour and blocks the artery that feeds it, through the groin or wrist.
Colour key
- Artery route to the tumourAnatomy
- CathetersWhat the doctor uses
- Hepatic artery to the tumourAnatomy
- The tumour’s artery and vesselsAnatomy
- KidneysAnatomy
- Liver and tumourAnatomy
- Liver and treated tumourAnatomy
- LiverAnatomy
- Tumour’s vessels, packed with beadsAnatomy
- Blocked tumour arteryAnatomy
- BeadsWhat stays in
- Beads on their wayWhat stays in
- GallbladderAnatomy
- Bile ductAnatomy
- Leg and pelvis arteryAnatomy
- Portal veinAnatomy
- Small vessels inside the liverAnatomy
- Vena cavaAnatomy
- Guide wireWhat the doctor uses
- SheathWhat the doctor uses
- DressingWhat stays in
Status
- 3D model
- Ready: 35 named parts, used by the patient guide.
- To come, from the same files as the on-screen model.
- Patient guide
- 12 steps in 5 parts, draft awaiting clinical review.
- Licence and credits
- Built from Z-Anatomy (CC BY-SA 4.0), based on BodyParts3D. Changed: simplified, recoloured, procedure parts added. Licence for this model: being confirmed before launch.
The story the model tells
- 1Your liver sits under your right ribsWhat it treats
- 2Cancer that starts in the liver, or spreads to itWhat it treats
- 3The liver has two blood supplies. The tumour mostly uses one.What it treats
- 4Medicine, then a block, aimed at the tumourHow it works
- 5What the team puts inHow it works
- 6Getting readyThe procedure
- 7In through the groin or the wristThe procedure
- 8Finding the tumour’s arteryThe procedure
- 9Giving the treatmentThe procedure
- 10Finishing upThe procedure
- 11Feeling unwell for a while is commonAfterwards
- 12Risks, explained plainlyRisks
Parts
| Part | Side | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| Liver | Anatomy | |
| Liver | Anatomy | |
| Liver tumour | The problem | |
| Tumour blood vessels | Anatomy | |
| Tumour’s vessels, packed with beads | Anatomy | |
| Tumour’s artery | Anatomy | |
| Tumour after treatment | After treatment | |
| Blocked tumour artery | Anatomy | |
| Beads | What stays in | |
| Beads on their way | What stays in | |
| Gallbladder | Anatomy | |
| Bile duct | Anatomy | |
| Aorta | Anatomy | |
| Liver arteries | Anatomy | |
| Leg and pelvis artery | Anatomy | |
| Portal vein | Anatomy | |
| Small vessels inside the liver | Anatomy | |
| Vena cava | Anatomy | |
| Right kidney | Right | Anatomy |
| Left kidney | Left | Anatomy |
| Catheter | What the doctor uses | |
| Thin catheter | What the doctor uses | |
| Catheter tip marker | What the doctor uses | |
| Guide wire | What the doctor uses | |
| Sheath | What the doctor uses | |
| Dressing | What stays in |