Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR
Mar 1, 2019
PURPOSE: To construct the albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) grade and the Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score based on nomograms, as well as to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) to compare the prognostic performance of the 2 scores for hepatocellular car...
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 encountered a case of hepatic portal lymph node metastasis after repeated treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)recurrence. A 73-year-old male patient underwent partial gastrectomy following rupture of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor 8 year...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
A 57-year-old man visited our hospital with right hypochondralgia. Abdominal contrast CT showed a 10 cm sized mass in S6-7of the liver and abdominal hemorrhage areas. The tumor showed extrahepatic growth. Blood a-fetoprotein(AFP)was high at 4,447.9ng...
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...
BACKGROUND: The infection for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality through its evolution to liver cirrhosis, end-stage liver complications and hepatocellular carcinoma. Currently, the new drugs for t...
RATIONALE: Hemangioma of the liver is a benign hepatic tumor, more common in women than in men, which is typically asymptomatic, solitary, and incidentally discovered. Atypical hemangioma is a variant of hepatic hemangioma with atypical imaging findi...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
a-fetoprotein(AFP)-producing gastric cancer is relatively rare and tends to show a poor prognosis because of hepatic and lymph node metastasis. We experienced a case of AFP-producing gastric cancer with synchronous liver metastasis wherein the patien...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
We report 2 cases of laparoscopic simultaneous resection for synchronous liver metastasis of colon cancer. Case 1: A 76- year-old woman was diagnosed with advanced cecum cancer(type 3)with synchronous liver metastasis(segment 5: 23mm), Laparoscopic i...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
A 67-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of anemia and weight loss, and diagnosed with a type 3 tumor in the upper gastric body. Pathological examination suggested moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma with immunohistochemically nega...