Non-surgical Treatment Options in Managing Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma: options for diagnosing and managing a deadly disease.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an important cause of death in patients with liver disease, and its incidence appears to be rising in the United States. Because early diagnosis improves the chances of survival, it is important to identify patients who would benefit from surveillance. Once HCC is suspected on surveillance, noninvasive diagnostic tests are available to make an accurate diagnosi...

Treatment Strategy for Recurrent Multiple Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has some unique characteristics in the digestive organ cancer. Therefore it is very important to select an appropriate treatment for recurrent HCC according to several situations such as the type of recurrence, previous treatments and conditions of patient. This article is a review of the concept of recurrent multiple HCC and its therapeutic strategies.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Sheep

Refractory trigeminal neuralgia. Non-surgical treatment options.

The guidelines on trigeminal neuralgia management published by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) recommended that patients unresponsive to carbamazepine or oxcarbazepine be offered the surgical option. However, because some patients may not be willing to resort to surgery, we searched the literature for treatment in refractory t...

Surgical outcomes of anatomical resection for solitary recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma.

BACKGROUND For eradicating portal venous tumor extension and intrahepatic metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), anatomical resection is, in theory, preferable. PATIENTS AND METHODS We carried-out a retrospective cohort study in 110 patients who underwent curative hepatic resection (anatomical resection; n=20, and limited resection; n=90) for solitary recurrent HCC from 1990-2010. RE...