funded by the Sichuan Province Science and Technology Planning Project(Grant No.2022NSFSC0767 to L.X.).
A 42-year-old man with a history of chronic inactive hepatitis B virus(HBV)infection presented with mild left abdominal pain that occurred for 2 weeks.The patient had no fever,cough,diarrhea,vomiting,or weight loss.Ph...
A 48-year-old man presented to an outpatient clinic with a 1-month history of upper abdominal distension,dull pain,and anorexia.He had no cough,fever,night sweats,or history of hepatitis.Liver metastases were suspecte...
A 43-year-old Tibetan female was brought to the department of general surgery with abdominal discomfort.Computed tomography(CT)scan revealed cystic hepatic echinococcosis in the right liver(Figure 1A).Further magnetic...
supported by the Hallym University Research Fund,the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)funded by the Ministry of Education,Science and Technology(No.NRF-2020R1A6A1A03043026);the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology(No.P0020622).
The liver is a unique solid organ with a regenerative capacity that is an important factor in the outcome of partial hepatectomy(PHx)performed to treat life-threating liver diseases(1-3).Multiple intrahepatic and extr...
Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)is a hypervascular tumor and has a tendency to invade portal vein(PV)or hepatic vein(HV).HCC with macrovascular invasion(MVI)is associated with poor prognosis(1).HCC invasion of PV can lea...
A 25-year-old female was admitted to the hospital 6 months after the discovery of a liver mass during a physical examination.She has no abdominal pain or abdominal wall masses.Liver function and alpha-fetoprotein(AFP)...
Currently,the terminology for liver anatomy and resection was based on the updates of the Brisbane 2000 system(1).In this setting,Couinaud’s anatomical description serves as the backbone for the classification of res...
supported by the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding(No.2022-PUMCH-B-034).
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD),is a chronic liver disease caused by a build-up of intrahepatic fat.Metabolic comorbidities associated with NAFLD included obesity,type 2 diabetes,hyperlipidemia,hypertension,a...
A female in her 50s,no previous personal history,presented to the Emergency Department with a 7 months history of progressively worsening abdominal diffuse pain associated with increasing abdominal volume.On physical ...
funded in part by National Institutes of Health grants NIH R21AA026928,R01DK109964,and AA029218(K.S.F)and by NIH/NCATS Colorado CTSA Grant Number TL1 TR002533(C.D.M.).Contents are the authors’sole responsibility and do not necessarily represent official NIH views.
Alcohol-associated liver disease(ALD)is increasingly prevalent throughout the world(1).It remains the leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality worldwide and contributes to approximately 6%of global death...