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Abdominal Skin Injury due to Non-Target Embolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Vascularized by the Internal Mammary Artery

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Isaac Ruiz is a recipient of fellowship grants from the CHUM Foundation, Montreal, Canada

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  1. Isaac Ruiz, Nadine S. Maalouf and Ahmed Bentridi shares co-first authorship.

  2. Daphna Fenyves, Ashley Hill and Louis Bouchard shares co-senior authorship.

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  1. Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), 1051 rue Sanguinet, Montréal, Qc, H2X 0C1, Canada

    Isaac Ruiz & Daphna Fenyves

  2. Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB), Université Paris-Est, Hôpital Henri Mondor, INSERM U955 Team 18, Créteil, France

    Isaac Ruiz

  3. Department of Dermatology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Canada

    Nadine S. Maalouf & Ashley Hill

  4. Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Canada

    Ahmed Bentridi, Ricardo Holderbaum do Amaral, Damien Olivié, Pierre Perreault & Louis Bouchard

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IR, DF, AH, LB conceived and designed the study. IR, NSM, AB, RHA, DO, PP, DF, AH, LB contributed to acquisition and analyzed and interpreted the data. IR, NSM, RHA, DO, AH, LB drafted the manuscript. All authors critically revised the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Ruiz, I., Maalouf, N.S., Bentridi, A. et al. Abdominal Skin Injury due to Non-Target Embolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Vascularized by the Internal Mammary Artery. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 45, 142–146 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-021-02951-w

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