An end-to-side suspender pancreaticojejunostomy: A new invagination pancreaticojejunostomy.

Background: Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) is a severe complication of the pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Recently, we introduced a method of suspender pancreaticojejunostomy (PJ) to the PD. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed various risk factors for complications after PD.

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.