BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Standardized and robust risk-stratification systems for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are required to improve therapeutic strategies and investigate the benefits of adjuvant systemic therapies after curative resect...
OBJECTIVE: Measurement of the liver and spleen volumes has clinical implications. Although computed tomography (CT) volumetry is considered to be the most reliable noninvasive method for liver and spleen volume measurement, it has limited application...
BACKGROUND: With the improvement in diagnostic imaging, perioperative care and surgical technique, the indications and complexity of liver resections have developed. However, the surgical indications remain controversial especially for some complex o...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
Laparoscopic hepatectomy has gained popularity owing to its merits, such as low invasiveness and reduced bleeding. However, the efficacy of laparoscopic repeat hepatectomy(LRH)has not been confirmed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibil...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
Here, we report the case of a 73-year-oldfemale patient, who previously underwent high anterior resection for rectosigmoidcancer at the age of 63. Her scheduled5 years of follow-up after colorectal surgery hadbeen finished, but she kept undergoing en...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
After approximately 2.5 years of chemotherapy at the referred hospital, a 69-year-old man with double colon cancer and unresectable liver metastases(H3)sought consultation. A total of 8 liver metastases were deemed resectable; however, the disease wa...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2019
A man in his 50s was referred to our hospital with a liver tumor detected by ultrasonography during a medical checkup. Enhanced CT scan and MRI showed hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)in S8 of the liver. Laparoscopic partial hepatectomy was performed. Th...
Zhongguo xue xi chong bing fang zhi za zhi = Chinese journal of schistosomiasis control
Oct 14, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To explore the application value of Revolution CT combining three -dimensional visualization technique in the precision resection of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis.
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
The patient was a 63-year-old man with hepatitis C. He discontinued combination therapy containing interferon and ribavirin because of the development of skin symptoms. A screening examination showed multiple early-stage hepatocellular carcinomas. He...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
We report a case of pathologicallycomplete response in ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)treated with transcatheter arterial embolization(TAE). A 56-year-old man presented to our hospital with a hepatic tumor. Enhanced computed tomography(CT)reve...