Abstract Background Hepatorenal syndrome is a potentially fatal complication of advanced liver disease. Markers for early diagnosis and identification high-risk patients are lacking. Our aim was to evaluate the role renal Duplex ultrasonography in prediction hepatorenal syndrome. This study included 50 patients. Clinical assessment, function tests, hepatitis C virus antibody, kidney abdominal c...

BACKGROUND Extended liver resection is necessary for advanced gallbladder cancer with hepatic involvement to achieve R0 resection. However, its type or extent and its surgical technique have yet to be established. METHODS To exclude systemic disease, frozen section biopsy following systematic para-aortic lymphadenectomy is recommended before starting extended surgery with curative intent beca...

A 46-year-old female patient with a history of drug abuse (now on methadone), chronic hepatitis C and heavy smoking was admitted with a 4-month history of increasing low back pain radiating to her left leg, weight loss and sweats. Examination was non-contributory. Laboratory tests showed hemoglobin 12.7 g/dl, white blood cells 18.6 10/ml (neutrophils 14.8), platelets 411 10/ml, normal electroly...

We have explored the innervation of the rainbow trout (O. mykiss) liver using immunohistochemical procedures and light microscopy to detect in situ protein gene product 9.5 and neuronal nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivities (PGP-IR and NOS-IR). The results showed PGP-IR nerve fibres running with the extralobular biliary duct (EBD), hepatic artery (EHA) and portal vein (EPV) that form the hep...

A 62-year-oldwomanwas admitted to our hospital with abdominal pain. Clinical examination revealed definite tenderness in the right hypochondrium only. Laboratory assessment on admission was normal. An abdominal ultrasound was performed, which showed an irregular hyperechoic pseudomass of the gallbladder. An abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan (●" Fig.1) and a magnetic reso...

We report a case of a false-positive finding in FDG PET/CT following radiotracer extravasation. A 15-year-old male patient was referred for therapeutic evaluation status post-chemotherapy for a lymphoblastic lymphoma. FDG PET/CT showed discordant findings with a marked decrease in a liver/hepatic hilum uptake, disappearance of a subcutaneous left supraclavicular uptake, and appearance of intens...

INTRODUCTION Cavernous hemangiomas are common benign tumors of the skin or liver but can also rarely originate from the retroperitoneal space, especially adjacent to the renal hilum. Qualitative characterization of these retroperitoneal tumors using available imaging modalities is relatively difficult. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year-old Japanese woman was incidentally noted to have a round homog...

Background and Aim: Hepatocellular-Cholangiocarcinoma Collision tumor (cHCC-CC) is a rare variant of primary hepatic malignancy. The prevalence varies between 0.1 -2 % in various studies. postulated origin by subsequent de-differentiation hepatocellular or cholangiocarcinoma into the other forms, from same progenitor cells incidental coexistence both types malignancies. 1 Case Report: 66 years ...