Liver Transplantation for Colorectal Liver Metastasis

Title Liver transplantation for unresectable colorectal liver metastasis

Liver metastasis from colorectal cancer 12 years after liver transplantation.

Liver transplantation is an effective treatment for many liver diseases, with a 5-year survival of about 70 %. However, development of de novo malignancies in these immunocompromised patients is becoming a frequent complication medium term. The annual risk of developing a malignant tumor after a solid organ transplant is 2% . We report the case of a liver transplant patient who developed colore...

Liver resection for non-colorectal, non-endocrine liver metastasis.

Liver metastases of non-colorectal non-endocrine origin (NCNELM) are rare indications for resection. Even in major liver surgery units, NCNELM constitute no more than 5% of all indications for resection. Such a small number is due to the fact that in the case of NCNELM, both primary and metastatic lesions are generally recognized in the advanced stages of the disease when not only metastases to...

Experimental Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis

T1 Colorectal Cancer with Synchronous Liver Metastasis

The patient was a 68-year-old man who was admitted to our hospital with a liver tumor. Abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography revealed a liver tumor 30 mm in diameter. On colonoscopy, a pedunculated tumor with a central depression (20 mm in diameter) was observed in the ascending colon, and this tumor was considered to be invading deeply into the submucosal layer. Right hemicolectomy...