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Schematic describing the principles of TACE. Access is gained in the femoral artery (left) and a hepatic artery is selected by use of a guidewire and a catheter (middle). A microcatheter is then often positioned a tumor feeding artery (right). From this location, TACE is performed by infusing a mixture of chemotherapeutics and embolic agents (right).
