BACKGROUND Intraoperative determination of resection margin and adequate residual liver parenchyma are the key points of hepatectomy for the treatment of liver tumors.Intraoperative ultrasound and indocyanine green fl...
AIM To evaluate the relationship between the location of hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) and the efficacy of transarterial chemoembolization(TACE).METHODS We evaluated 115 patients(127 nodules), excluding recurrent nodu...
AIM To evaluate the effect of long haul airplane transport of donor livers on post-transplant outcomes. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of patients who received a liver transplantation was performed in Perth, Aus...
Endoscopic submucosal dissection(ESD) is a widely accepted treatment for early gastric cancer(EGC),especially in Korea and Japan.The criteria for the therapeutic use of ESD for EGC have been expanded recently.However,...
AIM: To investigate the expression of α-fetoprotein (AFP), a cancer-associated fetal glycoprotein, and its involvement during rat colon development. METHODS: Colons from Sprague-Dawley rat fetuses, young and adu...
Tailgut cyst is a rare congenital cystic lesion arising from the remnants of the embryonic postanal gut. It occurs exclusively within the retrorectal space and rarely in the perirenal area or in the subcutaneous tissu...
Supported by the Research Foundation of Department of Education of Heilongjiang Province, No.10551131
AIM: To investigate the location alteration of Smad2 and Smad4 mRNAs in the liver during and after fibrogenesis in rats. METHODS: Eighty male Wistar rats weighing approximately 200 g each were used. The rat models o...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.39670812
AIM: To clarify the location and distribution of Kupffer cells in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and to investigate their role in hepatocarcinogenesis.METHODS: Kupffer cells were immunohistochemically stained by stre...