Multimodal approach to portal hypertension and gastric varices before hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: a case report

Multimodal approach to portal hypertension and gastric varices before hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: a case report

Abstract Background Liver cirrhosis occurs in approximately 80–90% of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and hepatic resection may be dangerous because of well-documented liver cirrhosis, which may be accompanied by portal hypertension (PH). Here we report a patient with advanced HCC with...

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Main Authors: Norifumi Harimoto, Kenichiro Araki, Ryo Muranushi, Kouki Hoshino, Kei Hagiwara, Norihiro Ishii, Mariko Tsukagoshi, Takamichi Igarashi, Akira Watanabe, Norio Kubo, Kei Shibuya, Masaya Miyazaki, Hirofumi Kawanaka, Ken Shirabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-07-01
Series:Surgical Case Reports
Subjects:
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Portal hypertension
Portal vein embolization
Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration
Hepatic resection
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40792-020-00952-4

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