Hepatic arterial infusion Hepatic arterial infusion Hepatic Arterial Infusion (HAI) is a medical procedure that delivers chemotherapy directly to the liver. The procedure, mostly used in combination with systemic chemotherapy, plays a role in the treatment of liver metastases in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). Although surgical resection remains the standard of care for these liver metastases, majority of patients have lesions that are unresectable. The liver derives its blood supply from two sources – via the hepatic arterial circulation and the portal circulation. Liver metastases get most of their blood supply primarily from the hepatic artery, whereas the normal liver cells get
Adjective phrase English is that an attributive adjective alone generally precedes the noun, e.g. "a proud man", whereas a head-initial or head-medial adjective phrase follows its noun, e.g. "a man proud of his children". A predicative adjective (phrase), in contrast, appears outside of the noun phrase that it describes, usually after a linking verb, e.g. "The man is proud of his children". There is a tendency to call a phrase an "adjectival phrase" when that phrase is functioning like an adjective phrase, but is not actually headed by an adjective. For example, in "Mr Clinton is a man of wealth", the prepositional