If you’ve received a liver cancer diagnosis, your treatment options depend on several factors. Surgery is sometimes but not always the best treatment option. Your doctor will stage your cancer ...

What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...

The Evolution of Our Molecular Understanding of Colorectal Cancer: What We Are Doing Now, What the Future Holds, and How Tumor Profiling Is Just the Beginning The liver is one of the most common sites ...

Surgical resection is the treatment of choice for patients with localized disease. 5 Nevertheless, venous invasion, local recurrence, intrahepatic dissemination, and distant metastases are frequent, ...

MRI_TS_147306474 Researchers found significant differences on MRI between malignant and benign hypovascular lesions of the liver. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be useful in evaluating ...

A recent surgical liver resection using robot-assisted surgery performed by Saint Peter’s University Hospital surgical oncologist James E. Gervasoni, Jr., PhD, MD, FACS, was the first of its kind to ...

Imaging studies and subsequent biopsies of a liver lesion showed a foamy macrophages aggregate in a 30-year-old patient with acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD) similar to those found in Gaucher ...

It allows donor livers to be held for days—significantly longer than the standard now–and even treated if they are damaged. A patient who received a donated liver that had been stored for three days ...

Liver transplant surgery involves replacing an unhealthy liver with a healthy one from a living or deceased donor. Recovery can take up to 1 year, and 5-year survival rates can be as high as 75%. A ...