Publications by authors named "Cuong M Truong"
Introduction And Importance: Primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the liver are exceedingly rare entities, presenting diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. The authors present a case of a 64-year-old male with a primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the liver, emphasizing the importance of comprehensive diagnostic evaluation and multidisciplinary management in such uncommon cases.
Case Presentation: The patient presented with persistent hypochondriac pain, leading to the discovery of a hepatic mass.
Backgrounds/aims: Recently, the ALPPS (Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy) has become widely known to achieve hepatic resection by rapid future liver remnant hypertrophy, but it comes with intraoperative difficulties, followed by increased complications. This study aimed to report the outcomes of an oncology center in a low-income and middle-income country with ALPPS in patients with liver tumors and its technical variants, which were invented to overcome intraoperative difficulties of the ALPPS procedure.
Patients And Methods: A retrospective analysis of patients undergoing ALPPS from September 2022 to December 2023 was performed.
Post hepatectomy Liver Failure (PHLF is a fatal complication, especially after major liver resection. Insufficient remnant liver volume is a common cause of postoperative liver failure. Many strategies have been applied to induce the remnant liver hypertrophy: Portal vein embolization (PVE), PVE combined with hepatic vein embolization (LVD), two staged liver resection, Associated liver partition with portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS).
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- - The study evaluated 30 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who underwent right hepatectomy using a combination of two techniques: the extrahepatic Glissonean pedicle approach and liver hanging maneuver, all performed by a single surgeon from March 2020 to August 2023.
- - Results showed that the majority of patients were male (96.7%) with an average age of 54.9 years; the surgery had a low complication rate, with no transfusions needed and a mean hospital stay of about 9 days, though 43.3% experienced recurrence.
- - The 1-year, 2-year, and 3-year survival rates post-surgery were 86.1%,
Introduction: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) associated with concurrent portal vein tumour thrombus (PVTT) and bile duct tumour thrombus (BDTT) is sporadic and presents a puzzle to management with miserable prognostic.
Case Presentation: The authors reported a case of HCC in the right liver with PVTT involving the right portal vein and BDTT developing in the common bile duct, detected in a 43-year-old man. The patient was admitted to our hospital with abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium and obstructive jaundice.
Introduction: Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease that often has a latent period after the initial infection. Tuberculosis most often affects the lungs but it can also affect other parts of the body. Vietnam is in pandemic area of tuberculosis.
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