Thyroid hormones play an essential role in lipid mobilization, lipid degradation, and fatty acid oxidation. Hypothyroidism has been associated with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; however, the association between thyroid ...

Background Whether neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) predicts survival of patients with colorectal liver metastases (CLM) treated with systemic chemotherapy remains unclear. Methods Clinicopathologic data were reviewed ...

Abdalla, E. K., Vauthey, J. N., & Couinaud, C. (2002). The caudate lobe of the liver: implications of embryology and anatomy for surgery. Surgical Oncology Clinics, 11(4), 835-848.

Purpose Cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) together form a two-disease state that affects survival of patients with HCC and dictates treatment decisions and prognostic stratification of patients in clinical trials. ...

Background We previously introduced a classification system for patients with localized pancreatic adenocarcinoma that integrates assessments of tumor anatomy, cancer biology, and patient physiology. By means of this ...

Hypothesis Chemotherapeutic agents may be able to convert unresectable colorectal hepatic metastasis to resectable disease, therefore changing the surgical options. The role of positron emission tomography (PET) for ...

Purpose Prolonged survival after two-stage resection (TSR) of advanced colorectal liver metastases (CLM) may be the result of selection of best responders to chemotherapy. The impact of complete resection in this well-selected ...

Background Lung metastases are considered a poor prognostic factor in patients with resectable colorectal liver metastases. Study Design We reviewed records of 1,260 consecutive patients with liver-only or ...

BACKGROUND: Patient outcomes following resection of colorectal liver metastases (CLM) after second-line chemotherapy regimen is unknown. METHODS: From August 1998 to June 2009, data from 1099 patients with CLM were ...