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Objectives: The increase in the routine use of abdominal imaging has led to a parallel surge in the identification of polypoid lesions in the gallbladder. True gallbladder polyps (GBP) have malignant potential and surgery can prevent or treat early gallbladder cancer. In an era of constraint on health care resources, it is important to ensure that surgery is offered only to patients who have appropriate...
Background: The optimal surgical management of patients found to have unresectable pancreatic cancer at open exploration remains unknown.
Methods: Records of patients who underwent non‐therapeutic laparotomy for pancreatic cancer during 2000–2009 and were followed until death at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, New York, were reviewed.
Results: Over the 10‐year study period, 157 patients...
Objectives: This study aimed to assess outcomes in patients who underwent hepatic resection for colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) with subcentimetre indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPN) and to devise a management pathway for these patients.
Methods: Patients undergoing CRLM resection from January 2006 to December 2010 were included. Survival differences following liver resection in patients with...
Objectives: Portal vein embolization (PVE) can facilitate the resection of previously unresectable colorectal cancer (CRC) liver metastases. Bevacizumab is being used increasingly in the treatment of metastatic CRC, although data regarding its effect on post‐embolization liver regeneration and tumour growth are conflicting. The objective of this observational study was to assess the impact of pre‐embolization...
Backround: Right lobe donations are known to expose the donors to more surgical risks than left lobe donations. In the present study, the effects of remnant volume on donor outcomes after right lobe living donor hepatectomies were investigated.
Methods: The data on 262 consecutive living liver donors who had undergone a right hepatectomy from January 2004 to June 2011 were retrospectively analysed...
Background: Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)‐guided choledochoduodenostomy (CDS) is an alternative to percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) drainage in patients with an obstructed biliary system where conventional endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage (ERBD) has been unsuccessful.
Methods: Five EUS‐CDS procedures were reviewed to assess whether successful decompression was achieved and...
Objectives: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an accepted treatment for patients with end‐stage liver disease. To minimize risk to the donor, left lobe (LL) LDLT may be an ideal option in adult LDLT.
Methods: This study assessed the outcomes of LL‐LDLT compared with right lobe (RL) LDLT in adults (1998–2010) as reported to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Organ Procurement...
Introduction: Focal intrahepatic strictures are becoming more common owing to more prevalent and accurate cross‐sectional imaging. However, data relating to their management are lacking. The purpose of the present review was to synthesize the current evidence regarding these lesions and to formulate a strategy for diagnosis and management.
Methods: A literature search of relevant terms was performed...
Objectives: After portosystemic anastomoses for biliopathy, some patients continue to suffer biliary obstruction. The effects of splenectomy and devascularization of the abdominal oesophagus and upper stomach are unclear. The aim of the current study was to determine the features of portal biliopathy (PB) in patients with non‐cirrhotic portal hypertension, and to investigate outcomes in these patients...
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