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Secure Surgical Method for Catheter Placement via the Occipital Artery to Achieve Retrograde Superselective Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy for Advanced Oral Cancer: Alternative to Approach via the Superficial Temporal Artery

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We describe secure surgical method for catheter placement using ultrasonic scalpel via the occipital artery to achieve retrograde superselective intra-arterial chemotherapy for advanced oral cancer, as alternative to approach via the superficial temporal artery.

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  1. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan

    Toshinori Iwai, Makoto Hirota, Kenji Mitsudo & Iwai Tohnai

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Southern Tohoku Proton Therapy Centre, Southern Tohoku Research Institute of Neuroscience, 7-172 Yatsuyamada, Koriyama, Fukushima, 963-8052, Japan

    Nobukazu Fuwa

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Iwai, T., Fuwa, N., Hirota, M. et al. Secure Surgical Method for Catheter Placement via the Occipital Artery to Achieve Retrograde Superselective Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy for Advanced Oral Cancer: Alternative to Approach via the Superficial Temporal Artery. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 66, 205–207 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-012-0501-1

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