Items tagged “liver”
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Hepatic solitary fibrous tumor
Hepatic solitary fibrous tumors are rare mesenchymal tumors.
Terminology
Historically, hepatic solitary fibrous tumors were known as hepatic hemangiopericytomas, however this term has now been abandoned.
Epidemiology
Fewer than 60 cases of hepatic solitary fibrous tumor have been reported i...
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Hepatic solitary fibrous tumor
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13 Feb 2015
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (surveillance)
Hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance programs have been adopted by some health systems in attempts to effect an early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in high-risk populations.
Rationale
The idea behind hepatocellular carcinoma screening, as with any screening program, is to detect clin...
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (staging)
Hepatocellular carcinoma staging classifications supersede the typical TNM staging system seen in most other epithelial cancers, as the TNM staging system has been found to not be as prognostically useful for stratification of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Several substitute staging sy...
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Liver cancer (BCLC staging)
Barcelona clinic liver cancer (BCLC) staging uses a set of criteria to guide the management of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
The classification takes the following variables into account 1,2:
performance status (PS)
Child-Pugh score
radiologic tumor extent
tumor size
multi...
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Barcelona clinic liver cancer (BCLC) staging classification
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17 Feb 2015
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Okuda staging system
The Okuda staging system was an advance on earlier hepatocellular (HCC) staging classifications, in that it incorporated both cancer-related variables and liver function related variables to determine prognosis 1:
disease involving >50% of hepatic parenchyma
ascites
albumin ≤3 mg/dL
bilirubi...
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Cholangiocarcinoma (staging)
Cholangiocarcinoma staging is most commonly classified using the TNM staging systems of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)/Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), which starting 1 January 2018 is according to its 8th edition. There are separate systems depending on whether the ...
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (exophytic)
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22 Feb 2015
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CT
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Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) (plural: autoimmune hepatitides) is a rare type of chronic hepatitis, currently classified as "type 1" or "type 2". It may eventually lead to cirrhosis. The role of imaging is primarily to exclude other diagnoses and evaluate for complications.
Epidemiology
It may oc...
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Hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a circular DNA virus endemic in many parts of the world. It is a risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Clinical presentation
Acute HBV infection is most often subclinical and asymptomatic. Symptomatic patients (~33%) may experience fever,...
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Hepatitis C virus
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an RNA virus and a member of the Flaviviridae family. It is a risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Pathology
Route of transmission
The most common route of transmission is through blood products and contaminated needles. Unprotected sex...
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Supradiaphragmatic liver
Supradiaphragmatic liver has been reported as a very rare variant in liver morphology.
In this variant, liver tissue extends into the right hemithorax through an opening in the right hemidiaphragm. The tissue is connected to the right hepatic lobe by a pedicle. In one report, the caudate lobe ...
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Hepatolithiasis
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08 Mar 2015
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Hepatoblastoma with pulmonary metastases
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15 Mar 2015
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Portal vein embolization
Portal vein embolization (PVE) is a technique used to selectively occlude the blood supply to one of the liver lobes, diverting portal blood flow to the other lobe, the future liver remnant (FLR).
This diversion will increase the size of the post-hepatectomy future liver remnant, which improves...
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Portal vein embolization
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06 Apr 2015
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DSA (angiography)
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Focal nodular hyperplasia
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19 Nov 2015
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MRI
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Hepatic adenoma (complicated by hemorrhage)
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08 Jan 2016
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Portal and superior mesenteric vein aneurysms
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12 Feb 2016
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