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..Our patients with proximal duct carcinoma undergo noninvasive assessment followed by rapid laparotomy without PBD if the lesion is deemed resectable...

..Surgical resection remains the only treatment that may allow long term survival. However, it is possible in only one third of patients...

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..To assess the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic liver resections...

..The advantages are those of minimally invasive surgery, and simpler re-operation for further hepatectomy or transplantation...

..Report the midterm results of laparoscopic resection for hepatocellular in chronic liver disease (CLD)...

..Because cadaveric organ donors are in short supply, living donors are increasingly being used in transplantations. We have developed a safe and reproducible method for laparoscopic liver resection...

..This study assessed the feasibility and outcomes of combined colorectal and hepatic resection as the first step of two-stage hepatectomy in patients with bilobar synchronous colorectal liver metastases...

..These patients should be offered the best chemotherapy option available coupled, where appropriate, with liver resection...

..Since 1997, the authors have performed laparoscopic left lateral sectionectomy of lesions of the liver in preference to open surgery. The aim of this study was to assess the outcome...

..The da Vinci robot laparoscopic incisional hernia repair with intracorporeal suturing may offer an alternative to transabdominal sutures and tackers...

..THE aim of this study was to describe the features of posttransplantation tumors observed in a series of liver transplant recipients with special reference to patients receiving a transplant for alcoholic cirrhosis...

..Since 2000, we have favoured primary chemotherapy with stent insertion in case of obstructive tumor. Our aim was to report the results of this strategy in an unselected consecutive series of patients...

..Although iproniazid is no longer sold in most countries, it is still commercialized in France. Because of the frequency and severity of hepatic injury, commercialization of iproniazid in France should no longer be authorized...

..The purpose of this paper is to review the imaging features of liver nodules within cirrhotic liver and to propose the imaging strategies when considering the possibility of liver transplantation...

..To clarify this point, we studied serum HCV RNA levels in patients with HCV liver disease at various stages, using a second-generation branched DNA (bDNA) assay...

..The haemodynamic changes that we found were well tolerated in these patients, who had normal cardiac function...

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..Surgery could then be limited to the resection of residual nodules susceptible to harbour persistent viable tumor cells...

..2 months. CONCLUSION: The multimodality approach used in the present study was well-tolerated and yielded dramatic responses. An aggressive approach combining i.v. and HAI chemotherapy deserves further investigation...

..Late reuse has, however, not been reported to date. We report the first case in which a liver graft was successfully reused 13 years after the first transplantation...

..The main goal was to minimize donor morbidity while preserving the abdominal wall. Herein, we report the technical feasibility and reproducibility, and compared it with open liver resection (OLR)...

..Resection for benign liver disease can represent a valid indication for the laparoscopic approach...

..Their applicability is therefore limited, despite similar survival rates compared to the Milan criteria, when the explanted liver is taken into account...

..This article briefly discusses liver resection for HCC in patients who do not have chronic liver disease and then discusses liver resection for HCC in patients who have chronic liver disease...

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..We report the case of a 28-year-old woman, with a positive hepatitis B virus surface antigen, who developed fulminant hepatitis 2 weeks after receiving a second infliximab infusion for a refractory adult onset Still's disease...

..CONCLUSION: Our study suggests that, despite longer operative and clamping times without clinical consequences, the rate of decompensation of liver disease could be lower after laparoscopy...

..2%, compared with 54.2% among their matched controls (P = 0.9). In conclusion, with a mean waiting period of 4.2 months and 1 TACE procedure, pre-LT TACE does not influence post-LT overall survival and disease-free survival...

..Despite longer operation and clamping time, without any clinical consequences, the laparoscopic approach was associated with decreased blood loss and absence of specific complications of the hepatic resection...

..The authors conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial to evaluate the hemostatic effect and safety of recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) in major partial hepatectomy...

..Cryoglobulinemia did not seem to be associated with more severe graft damage. Cryoglobulinemia-associated morbidity must be taken into account in the management of post-transplant HCV infection...

..CONCLUSION: Thrombocytopenia of <50 x 10(9)/l for 3 days is frequent after liver transplantation and as such is not an important contributor to bleeding. However, thrombocytopenia does reflect the severity of the postoperative course...

..The aim of this work was to identify specific risk factors for lymphoproliferative disorders after liver transplantation in adults...

..However, in large lesions (> 3 cm) without a stellate area and in lesions with heterogeneity, histopathology examination is mandatory to rule out other diagnoses...

..The more rapid and less complicated recovery after palliative stent insertion compared with surgery may theoretically facilitate the early administration of chemotherapy...

..We discuss a possible immune mechanism of tumoural regression with a review of similar cases described in the literature...

..However, these did not necessitate stopping the procedure or releasing PTC in these study patients without cardiac disease...

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..These results suggest that a two-compartment model for NO output allows the increase in FE(NO) from alveolar sources to be differentiated from the increase from bronchial sources...