Advances in Assessment and Planning for Surgical Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

This chapter covers recent important topics relevant to ensuring safe liver resection. In particular, preoperative and intraoperative techniques, such as 3-dimensional CT, intraoperative ultrasonography with contrast agent and fluorescence imaging using indocyanine green are reportedly useful and have been applied to liver resection and liver transplantation. We, herein, describe the performance of liver resection under the guidance of these techniques and present tips for more accurate intraoperative tumor detection and safer surgical procedures.

Improved survival of left-sided pancreas cancer after surgery.

Objective: Resective therapeutic strategy for left-sided pancreatic adenocarcinoma is open to debate. The post-resection outcomes and factors influencing post-resection survival for adenocarcinoma of the body and tail of the pancreas were analyzed to determine the effectiveness of surgery.

Methods: A total of 73 patients with adenocarcinoma of the body or tail of the pancreas who underwent resection between 1994 and June 2007 were evaluated for overall survival.