Cheng Chung Wu

..Liver resection in a patient with cirrhosis carries increased risk. The purposes of this study were to review the results of cirrhotic liver resection in the past decade and to propose safe strategies for cirrhotic liver resection...

..The remnant liver is the most common site of recurrence, but the role of repeat hepatectomy in the treatment of recurrent HCC is controversial...

..The necessity of hepatic vein reconstruction (HVR) after resection of cranial part of the liver and major hepatic vein(s) in cirrhotic patients when residual liver is insufficient for a major hepatectomy remains unclear...

..Although liver resection is now a safe procedure, its role for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with cirrhosis remains controversial...

..To examine the feasibility of a real "blood transfusion"-free hepatectomy in a large group of patients with liver tumors...

..In our previous study, we demonstrated that HBx inhibits tumor formation in nude mice injected with CCL13-HBx stable cell lines; however, the mechanism underlying this inhibition is unclear...

..Therefore, these findings suggested that AE may be involved, in part, in the proliferation and survival of HA22T cells and could be a new potential therapeutic target against specific human HCC...

..The aim of the study is to evaluate retrospectively the surgical results of hepatocellular carcinoma with gross diaphragmatic invasion undergoing en-bloc resection of diaphragm...

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..Members of the protein kinase C (PKC) isoenzyme family play a central role in the tumorigenesis of several tissues. However, little is known about subtype specific intracellular expression of PKC in human hepatocellular carcinomas...

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..However, in the bordering non-neoplastic region of liver DDH1/2 expression increased, and the increased DDH1/2 expression correlated with tumor size and the disease progression...

..The patient remained disease-free 3 years after operation. With a prompt diagnosis, duodenal diversion with endoluminal aortic stent may be a better option for iatrogenic aortoduodenal fistula...

..The data demonstrated that the etiology of HCC is involved with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and that HBx in particular plays a role in the development of HBV-related HCC...

..Our data suggest that HBx induces apoptosis through both extrinsic and intrinsic pathways...

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..Moreover, she had another healthy infant 37 months after pulmonary metastatectomy. Aggressive resection of recurrent HCC may prolong life, and pregnancy should not alter the treatment strategy for HCC...

..The presence in our case of diffuse carcinomatosis indicates that the signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma had a greater adverse effect on the prognosis than the GIST...

..Taken together, our data indicates that overexpressed hER-beta but not hER-alpha may induce caspase-8-mediated apoptosis by increasing the hTNF-alpha gene expression in a ligand-dependent manner in poorly differentiated HA22T cells...

..In our previous studies, we reported that HBx inhibited the growth of CCL13-HBx-stable cells (Chang-HBx cells) in vitro and tumor formation in vivo in CCL13-HBx-cell-injected nude mice; however, this inhibition mechanism is unclear...

..Twenty cases (71%) of adjacent normal tissue showed little or undetectable signals. The results indicated that overexpression of AE2 may be involved in the development of human HCC...

..COX-2 inhibitors increase CRMP-1 expression by inhibiting Sp1-DNA complex formation and enhancing DNA binding of C/EBPalpha at the promoter...

..The aim of this study is to investigate the expression of apoptotic proteins in the tissues of HCC, and analyze the relationship between the expression of apoptotic proteins and hepatitis B virus infection...

..This complicated case was managed successfully and noninvasively based on algorithm found in the recent literature that allows patients to avoid unnecessary surgery...

..Because these lesions occur so infrequently, they are often not suspected until encountered intraoperatively. The specific findings and advantages of sonography are reviewed...

..Three months after operation, the patient had multiple recurrent tumor nodules within the liver, spreading the metastasis to the adrenal glands and para-aortic lymph nodes. The patient died 1 year after operation...

..Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare, benign lymphoproliferative disorder that can involve single lymph node stations or can be systemic. Unicentric CD in patients with microcytic anemia is rarely described in the English literature...

..Eosinophilic cholangitis, a rare inflammatory condition that clinically resembles a biliary malignancy, should be taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis in the evaluation of presumed neoplasm of the bile ducts...