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A survey was conducted to give an overview about the practice of radioembolization in malignant liver tumors by European centers.

A questionnaire of 23 questions about the interventional center, preinterventional patient evaluation, the radioembolization procedure and aftercare were sent to 45 European centers.

The response rate was 62.2% (28/45). The centers performed 1000 (median=26) radioembolizations in 2009 and 1292 (median=40) in 2010. Most centers perform preinterventional evaluation and radioembolization on an inpatient basis. An arterioportal shunt not amendable to preinterventional embolization is considered a contraindication. During preinterventional angiography, the gastroduodenal artery is embolized by 71%, the right gastric artery by 59%, and the cystic artery by 41%. In case of bilobar disease, yttrium-90 microspheres are infused into the common …