Therapeutic Effect and Prognosis of Biliary Tract Tumor Transformation.

Biliary tract tumor is a common malignant disease in clinical practice. Its incidence rate and mortality rate are high, which seriously endangers the health of the people. At present, gastrointestinal surgery is mainly used to treat patients at home and abroad.

Applied anatomy of small branches of the portal vein in transverse groove of hepatic hilum.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to provide the morphological details on small branches of the portal vein in transverse groove of hepatic hilum.

Methods: According to the surgery significance, the small branches of portal vein in transverse groove of hepatic hilum were named as "Short hepatic portal veins (SHPVs)". SHPVs were minutely dissected in 30 adult cadaveric livers.

Early control of short hepatic portal veins in isolated or combined hepatic caudate lobectomy.

Background: Caudate lobectomy has long been considered technically difficult. This study aimed to elaborate the significance of early control of short hepatic portal veins (SHPVs) in isolated hepatic caudate lobectomy or in hepatic caudate lobectomy combined with major partial hepatectomy, and to describe the anatomical characteristics of SHPVs.

Methods: The data of 117 patients who underwent either isolated or combined caudate lobectomy by the same team of surgeons from 2005 to 2009 were retrospectively analyzed.

Sorafenib extends the survival time of patients with multiple recurrences of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation.

Aim: to determine the efficacy and toxicities of sorafenib in the treatment of patients with multiple recurrences of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation in a Chinese population.

Methods: twenty patients with multiple recurrences of HCC after liver transplantation were retrospectively studied. They received either transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) or TACE combined with sorafenib.